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People Want Justice... In Compton-- Are Trump's Promises Going To Appeal To Them?
Compton is a city in L.A. County. It was formerly a Black majority city but now the population is over 70% Latino. My best friend works...

Howie Klein
Apr 22, 20238 min read


Book Banning Is An Absolute Precursor To Fascism-- No Two Ways About It, Governor DeSantis
Fascist regimes have historically sought to control information and limit access to books and libraries in order to manipulate and shape...

Howie Klein
Apr 17, 20236 min read


Fighting Fascism At Home And Abroad-- Brazil's Lula da Silva, California's Adam Schiff
Alexander Burns penned a piece yesterday about Lula’s trip to DC and his proposed global battle against fascism, delivering a “dire...

Howie Klein
Apr 14, 20236 min read


India Is Often Touted As The World's Biggest Democracy; Let's Be Real--Modi Has No Democratic Values
Gandhi Was Expelled From Parliament Yesterday A couple of days ago, when I was writing about the real-time disintegration of Israeli...

Howie Klein
Mar 25, 20234 min read


Some People Object To Using The Word "Fascist" To Describe The GOP, Trump & Meatball Ron
Branko Marcetic noted in his coverage of the SVB collapse and bailout that “The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by...

Howie Klein
Mar 14, 20237 min read


Flirting With Fascism? The GOP Has Gone Way Beyond First Base... Especially In Florida
Last night on Chris Hayes’ show, former GOP strategist turned #NeverTrump activist Stuart Stevens slammed the Republican Party as an...

Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20233 min read


There Were People Like This When I Was 20 Too--They're As Much A Waste Of Time Now As They Were Then
It's Unlikely Anything Good Will Come Out Of Wyoming This Century Marjorie Traitor Greene tweeted that “everyone” she talks to agrees...

Howie Klein
Feb 22, 202322 min read


Using Icons Of American Patriotism To Sell Anti-Semtism & Hate— Happy 80th Anniversary, Ron DeSantis
Thom Hartman has been ringing the alarm bell— furiously— on the new face of American fascism, Ron DeSantis… although, anyone who followed...

Howie Klein
Feb 4, 20236 min read


Will Brazil Punish Its Fascist Insurrectionists More Effectively Than The U.S. Has?
In Fact, Maybe Brazil Can Punish Some Of Ours Too-- Bannon & Miller Are Complicit When my grandfather’s family fled persecution in Russia...

Howie Klein
Jan 9, 20235 min read


There Are Over Two Dozen Fascist Members Of Congress-- Here's The List
Their Numbers Will Grow When The Freshmen Are Sworn In I don’t understand why so many serious scholars still seem reluctant to come right...

Howie Klein
Dec 28, 20224 min read


The Nature Of The Republican Party-- John Nichols Gets It... Why Doesn't Everyone?
Don't Be Shy About Using The "F" Word Let’s think of this as a kind of part 2 of this from this morning… albeit before the earth breaking...

Howie Klein
Nov 28, 202212 min read


It Will Always Be So Weird To Me That Any Jews Are Fascists, Republicans...Right-Wingers Of Any Type
At Least Some Are Moving Away From Trump's Instinctual Anti-Semitism None of these Republicans are Jewish: Ron DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin,...

Howie Klein
Nov 19, 20225 min read


A LOT Of Good News From Arizona-- If You Don't Count The Naziism, Anti-Semitism And Racism
Why Is The DOJ Not Enforcing The 14th Amendment? Last night, the Arizona gubernatorial race was called for Democrat Katie Hobbs, who beat...

Howie Klein
Nov 15, 202210 min read


Midnight Meme Of The Day! A Happy Veterans Day!
by Noah A Happy Veterans Day to all of those who have fought Nazis of every kind both abroad and here. The faces of fascism are many. The...

Noah
Nov 11, 20221 min read


Elon Musk Is Carefully Turning Twitter Into A Free-For-All Hellscape
My Twitter following normally goes up by a dozen or two a day, especially at this time of the year right before an election. Since Musk...

Howie Klein
Nov 2, 20228 min read


Utah-- More Or Less, Just Like America... Except Without A Democratic Party
Sorry, but conservative Republican Evan McMullin isn’t going to oust Utah fascist Mike Lee and win his state's Senate race, not even with...

Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20225 min read


It's Impossible To Tell The Story Of The GOP Going Off The Rails Without Mentioning Traitor Greene
Some Democratic candidates are hoping that last door-to-door outreach and last minute ads about the “threat to democracy can anger and...

Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20228 min read


A Scholarly Book Published In 1950 Foretold The Rise Of Donald Trump— And The Descent Of The USA
The F Scale, 2022 Last week, the Canadian Broadcasting Company updated a report from April on a study from 1950 about what kind of people...

Howie Klein
Oct 30, 202214 min read


The Republican Party Has Been Bolsonarofied
Brazil’s presidential election has been marred with a flood of hate speech and a certain kind of “misinformation” being perpetrated by...

Howie Klein
Oct 26, 20226 min read


A Little Bit Fascist, A Little Bit Rock’n’Roll?
This morning, writing on Juan Cole’s Informed Consent, Scott Prosterman placed Ken Burn’s latest in a frightening U.S. context: Ken...

Howie Klein
Oct 20, 20226 min read
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