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Russo-Republicans In Congress Are As Determined As Trump Is To Hand Ukraine Over To Russia
Bonus: Hungary-- Always On The Wrong Side Of History The white flag the Russo-Republicans in the House have been carrying around the...

Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20246 min read


Which Is A More Existential Threat— Trump Or Artificial Intelligence? Or A Combination?
Risk Assessment 2024 The Eurasia Group is a political risk consultancy, started by Ian Bremmer in 1998. Their annual risk assessment...

Howie Klein
Jan 14, 202411 min read


Tomorrow Is GOP Caucus Day In Iowa-- Utterly Meaningless, But The Conservatives Spent $300 Million
All Losers, No Winners My grandfather’s rural village, in what is now Ukraine, had been decimated by Cossacks. He was a teenager— and a...

Howie Klein
Jan 14, 20243 min read


Dancing With Deceit: A Society Unraveled By The Corrosive Power Of Distrust
Can America Mend the Divide? Or Is It Too Late? Pennsylvanians who follow state politics know that Rep. Stephanie Borowicz is out of her...

Howie Klein
Jan 10, 202413 min read


Are You Worried About MAGA Violence Around This Year's Election Or If Trump Is Convicted?
In a guest column for The Atlantic yesterday, Nancy Pelosi wrote that Trump “had long planned for the nullification of the election,...

Howie Klein
Jan 7, 20243 min read


From Resentment Politics To Vengeance Politics—a Guest Post By Zoe Roberts
I met Zoe Roberts when she was managing the congressional campaign of a candidate Blue America had endorsed. When I saw she had written a...

Howie Klein
Dec 25, 20235 min read


Why Did Some Jews Vote For Hitler? Same Reasons Some Jews— And Other Minorities— Back Trump Today
And It Isn't Only About Low IQs Señor Trumpanzee at the neo-Nazi New York Young Republican Club, on Saturday, when the other GOP...

Howie Klein
Dec 11, 20235 min read


How Far Down The Rabbit Hole Has The Republican Party Gone With Trump? Is There Anything Left?
Will Liz Cheney Be The Last Anti-MAGA Republican Left Standing? Trump has many debilitating psychological conditions. The most commonly...

Howie Klein
Dec 4, 20236 min read


2024— Not Another Lesser Of Two Evils Election… Way Beyond That
March, 1933 Germany Had One Last Chance To Save Itself From Naziism-- 17,277,180 People (43.9%) Voted For Hitler & That Was The End...

Howie Klein
Nov 30, 20236 min read


No More Making Fun Of Señor Trumpanzee, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Traitor Greene And George Santos?
Did you read the last post, the one with “Señor Trumpanzee” in the title. Tom Nichols thinks that with much of America’s politics having...

Howie Klein
Nov 19, 20234 min read


When Voters Reject The GOP Agenda-- The GOP Comes Up With Novel Ways To Change The Rules
Trump's Big Lie Is An Outgrowth Of The GOP War On Democracy After the Republicans were thrashed on the abortion issue Tuesday, some...

Howie Klein
Nov 11, 20238 min read


Voters Really Do Not Want Politicians Trying To Take Away Their Rights And Freedoms
And We All Know Who The Greater Evil Will Always Be Republicans lost so badly on Tuesday because they’re looked at as the party that...

Howie Klein
Nov 9, 20235 min read


The GOP War Against Democracy-- The Wisconsin Front
In his mania to impeach Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, state House Speaker Robin Vos appointed a secret 3-judge panel to...

Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20235 min read


Wisconsin Republicans-- The Party That Inflicted Joe McCarthy On America-- Are Up To No Good Again
Last year, Wisconsin voters elected a Tony Evers (D) governor over Tim Michels (R), 1,358,774 (51.2%) to 1,268,535 (47.8%). In the...

Howie Klein
Sep 14, 20233 min read


The GOP War Against Democracy-- Wisconsin Republicans Want To Impeach Janet Protasiewisc Already
Robin Vos Will Do Anything To Protect Gerrymandered Districts Wisconsin is one of the most aggressively gerrymandered states in the U.S....

Howie Klein
Aug 13, 20235 min read


I Left During Nixon's Reign & Stayed During Trump's-- If DeSantis Ever Becomes Prez, Move To Holland
More than most Republican politicians, DeSantis has made a name for himself by restricting and taking away people’s liberties and...

Howie Klein
Aug 11, 20234 min read


The Republican Party's War Against Democracy Is Beyond Just About Getting Trump Into Office Again
I just went upstairs to get dressed and I flipped on MSNBC. Corporate lawyer, Antonin Scalia clerk and conservative judge Michael Luttig...

Howie Klein
Aug 10, 20236 min read


Ohio Voters Rejected The Republican Party Yesterday-- And In No Uncertain Terms
In 2020, Trump won 81 of Ohio’s 88 counties and beat Biden 53.3% to 45.2%. The alarm bell for Republicans is not that their anti-Choice...

Howie Klein
Aug 9, 20236 min read


DeSantis & Trump Battle Over Who's More Racist, More Bigoted, More Disgustingly Republican
This morning, I started writing a post about Eleanor Roosevelt’s work on human rights. I ended up with a post about the Ron...

Howie Klein
Jul 3, 20236 min read


Another Way For Republicans To Circumvent And Sabotage Democracy On Behalf Of Their Rich Patrons
Two of the Supreme Court’s worst assaults against democracy have been its decisions to allow unfettered corporate money into the system...

Howie Klein
May 16, 20233 min read
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