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Is It Fair To Ask Voters To Blame Republican Governors For Pandemic Explosions In Their States?
Or, as Greg Sargent put it in his Washington Post column today, The Zombie Trumpism Of GOP Governors Gives Democrats A Big Opening....

Howie Klein
Sep 7, 20216 min read
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Trump Isn't Finished Trying To Destroy American Democracy-- And He Has A Whole Party Backing Him Up
Writing for the New Republic today, Señor Trumpanzee's neice, Mary Trump, bashed the fat orange criminal but good: Donald's Plot Against...

Howie Klein
Aug 12, 20218 min read
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The Deadliest Counties In The Deadliest States-- Welcome To Trump Country
Just before the Senate passed the hard infrastructure bill this morning, Trump was pointlessly fuming at McConnell-- who voted for it--...

Howie Klein
Aug 10, 20214 min read
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Pelosi Had No Choice But To Keep Jordan & Banks Off The Trump Coup Investigation
This morning, Politico's early morning Playbook team noted that the investigation into the 1/6 insurrection "should be among the most...

Howie Klein
Jul 22, 20216 min read
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Is Voter Suppression Once Again Openly A Tenet Of Conservatism?
In an editorial yesterday, "It's Up To The Voters To Rebuke Republicans Who Embrace The 'Big Lie'," Washington Post editors noted that...

Howie Klein
Jul 7, 20216 min read
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Trump Will Never Go Away Until He's Dead-- Which Can't Come Too Soon
This morning, Adam Schiff, my own congressman, told me that "QAnon supporters were among the most visible participants during the deadly...

Howie Klein
Jun 16, 20219 min read
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Do Democrats Care About Democracy? How Much?
In his Washington Post column this afternoon, Greg Sargent-- butting into an argument between well-respected progressive free-lancer John...

Howie Klein
May 24, 20216 min read
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Despite Conventional Wisdom-- & Themselves-- 2022 Should Be A Banner Year For Democrats
Greg Sargent's column this morning was a quickie look into the bizarre mental workings of GOP elected officials. He notes how their...

Howie Klein
May 17, 20217 min read
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The GOP Is Unsalvageable... But Is It Also Unstoppable?
In his Politico essay about the unlikelihood of a Republican civil war this morning, Jeff Greenfield noted that media coverage shows...

Howie Klein
May 14, 20213 min read
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Will Manchin Derail Biden (And The Democrats) And Hand The Midterms To The GOP?
Earlier, Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent wrote that "By many measures, the first 100 days of Joe Biden’s presidency have surpassed...

Howie Klein
Apr 27, 20215 min read
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More On American Partisan Re-Alignment
This morning, one of my favorite Washington Post opinion writers, Greg Sargent, penned a piece, How Trump’s toxicity continues to poison...

Howie Klein
Apr 7, 20214 min read
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What's Preventing The Democrats From Abolishing The Filibuster?
Conservative and "moderate" Democrats are the culprits. Biden isn't exactly eager to do so, but he doesn't get a vote and he doesn't have...

Howie Klein
Mar 4, 20214 min read
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Can Trump Succeed In Turning The GOP Into A Fascist Party Without Limbaugh's Help?
In his interview with legendary author Rick Perlstein this week, Greg Sargent worked to put Rush Limbaugh into some kind of contextual...

Howie Klein
Feb 20, 20214 min read
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Will Senate Republicans Prevent Us From Ever Getting To The Bottom Of The Coup Attempt?
This morning, Joe Klein, writing for The Bulwark, tried defending the notion of unity and in the process emphasized that though it has...

Howie Klein
Feb 17, 20215 min read
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Are The Lunatics Now Running The Republican Party Insane Asylum?
Dustin Stockton, a Steve Bannon crony and one of the top coup organizers hasn't been arrested yet-- neither for his role in the...

Howie Klein
Feb 3, 20216 min read
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Trumpists Can't Find Jobs... While McConnell Struggles To Save His Own
Politico reported this morning that Trump Regime aides are largely unable to find jobs. No one want to hire a slightly used Nazi? What a...

Howie Klein
Jan 25, 202112 min read
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How Many Republican Seditionists Do You Think Will Be Expelled From Congress?
This morning Ted Lieu, Jamie Raskin and David Cicilline introduced an impeachment resolution (which you can read by clicking here.) In a...

Howie Klein
Jan 11, 20218 min read
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A Fish Rots From The Head Down-- And The Sore Loser Breeds Sore Losers
Trump is fighting with Mitch McConnell and fighting with Fox, fighting with Republican governors, fighting with anyone who has a...

Howie Klein
Dec 16, 20205 min read
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