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I Lived In Amsterdam For 4 Years During The Nixon Era-- I'm Thinking Of Moving Back
Right at the time that the congressional Democratic Party is falling apart and turning away from the last shreds of its progressive...

Howie Klein
Jun 7, 20229 min read
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Will Putin Be Tried For War Crimes? Sure-- The Same Day As Kissinger, Bush And Blair
Madi Kapparov identifies himself as a PhD student at the London Business School. This morning, he translated a chat on video by one of...

Howie Klein
May 22, 20226 min read
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CPAC Goes All In On Fascism
Fascistpalooza Budapest-- aka, CPAC 2022 began yesterday with a keynote speech by Hungary's fascist hetman Viktor Orbán. Reuters covered...

Howie Klein
May 20, 20225 min read
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Idaho Went Nazi On Tuesday-- But The Mainstream Media Is Ignoring It
Many Americans have all but given up on Idaho. At this point, the state seems more likely to secede than Mississippi or Alabama do....

Howie Klein
May 19, 20224 min read
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Asger Jorn-- A Fascist Group Vandalized One Of His Most Iconic Paintings: Culture War
Bernie and I grew up in the same Brooklyn neighborhood and went to the same elementary and high schools, albeit a few years apart. The...

Howie Klein
May 1, 20224 min read
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The End Of The World As We Know It-- I Don't Feel Fine
The Most Pessimistic Post On This Blog Ever I don't usually point to Maureen Dowd's columns as worth reading, let alone important....

Howie Klein
Apr 16, 202210 min read
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The GOP Is Racist & Xenophobic, But Essentially... Not Populist
The GOP is primarily appealing to the white working class, while making inroads into the Hispanic and Black middle class. But, in the...

Howie Klein
Apr 15, 20223 min read
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This Is No Game: Putin Has To Be Stopped
I didn't read Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands. Did you? I loved his book On Tyranny. How did I miss this! My friend Melody turned me onto it...

Howie Klein
Apr 11, 202214 min read
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We Don't Need That Fascist Groove Thang-- But How Much Of It Is Kremlin Propaganda?
Kyiv is being shelled, bombed, pounded, choked... and yesterday Carlotta Gall reported that nearly half the population has fled, but that...

Howie Klein
Mar 21, 20225 min read
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Are We All Ukrainians Yet?
When the U.S. offered to rescue Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his response was "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a...

Howie Klein
Feb 26, 20229 min read
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What Tribe You In, Man?
I hope you read Professor Darren Sherkat's brilliant explanation yesterday about how we know Trump voters tend towards the moron end of...

Howie Klein
Jan 25, 20223 min read
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Does A Fascist Takeover Of Our Country Seem Remote? It Isn't!
Writing at Crooks & Liars this morning, Kerry Eleveld noted that Biden-- historically a Joe Manchin kind of senator who has always run...

Howie Klein
Jan 16, 20227 min read
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Stupidest Column Of The Week Award Goes To... Thomas Friedman Again
Thank you Liz Cheney, for standing up against fascism. The rest of your career-- from soup to nuts (and that is mostly nuts)-- is every...

Howie Klein
Jan 13, 20224 min read
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"There’s Nothing That Matters More Than Our Freedoms Right Now"-- Kelly Ernby, GOP COVID Victim
Maybe with a few hardcore congressional Nazis like Cawthorn, Gosar and Traitor Greene as exceptions, members of Congress from both...

Howie Klein
Jan 4, 20224 min read
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GOON-O-RAMA! 2021 In Review! Part Ten: A Republican Message To America.
-by Noah Kill him with his own gun! Our president wants us here! We were invited here! We were invited by the President Of the United...

Noah
Dec 29, 20217 min read
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Is It Too Late For Democracy?
Just before dawn-- right around the time our post about how Americans have turned against the Supreme Court went up-- the NY Times...

Howie Klein
Dec 29, 20214 min read
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False Equivalencies Between A Fascist Right & A Non-Existent Hard Left Are Stupid & Dangerous
In her essay for The Atlantic this morning, The Left And The Right Believe The Worst About Each Other, Victoria Parker falls into...

Howie Klein
Dec 27, 20218 min read
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Americans United, Defeated Fascism In '45. Today We Are Divided... And Fascism Is Taking Over
On Sunday, writing for the Wall Street Journal, Aaron Zittner and Chad Day reported that there will be significantly fewer competitive...

Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20216 min read
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Would You Date A Republican? How About A Really Good-Looking One?
The video clip of Matt Gaetz-- and the smirking chimp next to him-- in the video that opens an earlier post should be enough to turn...

Howie Klein
Dec 8, 20214 min read
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Conservatism’s Inevitable Decay Into Trumpism... And Fascism
David Brooks Now Considers Himself A Manchin-Sinema Democrat Let's begin with a warning from the very worst of the worst. The Texas...

Howie Klein
Dec 8, 20218 min read
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