Howie KleinFeb 117 minAnd The Winner Is... AnomieNineteenth Century French sociologist Émile Durkheim described a kind of societal derangement which has come to be seen as anomie or...
Howie KleinJan 263 minWhat 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 KleinJan 124 minThere's No Booster Shot To Give People Immunity To Ignorance (Or Cowardice)Trump Attacks His Own Candidates As "Gutless" I used to teach at McGill in Montreal, so I wasn't surprised when I read last night that...
Howie KleinDec 12, 20217 minCan One Prove That Trump Was The Worst President Ever? EasilyTrump is gone, but, alas, far from forgotten. The little he accomplished was disastrous at the time and many of the effects are being...
Howie KleinNov 13, 20217 minSatan's Back... And His Name Is MAGAMy favorite author of all time is Fyodor Dostoevsky, who lived in Czarist Russia between 1821 and 1881, during which time he had a day...
Howie KleinNov 7, 20216 minMAGAs Are Invariably Very Screwed Up In The Head. But Do Democrats Have A Response?As I've been saying for months: I could care less that corporate Dem Terry McAuliffe lost his gubernatorial race. I'm not happy that the...
Howie KleinOct 28, 20216 minCall Me Crazy, But The Democratic Party Isn't The Only One That Needs To Be Put Out Of Its MiseryWhat's A Wacko Bird? Yesterday, writing for Politico, Meredith McGraw asked if even Trumpworld is starting to realize they've grown too...
Howie KleinAug 21, 20216 minWho Speaks For The Horrible People Who Are Today's GOP?Kevin McCarthy, @GOPLeader, has 1.3 million Twitter followers. His second-in-command, Steve Scalise has two Twitter accounts,...
Howie KleinAug 5, 20214 minSome GOP Politicians Would Rather Share COVID Than Vaccines, Masks & EmpathyMy old friend, Danny Goldberg, has a new book out, Bloody Crossroads 2020-- Art, Entertainment And Resistance To Trump. I jotted down a...
Howie KleinJul 18, 20215 minMost Southern Republicans Want To Secede-- They Should Be EncouragedI have no reason to disbelieve Mo Brooks when he describes his role of revving up armed insurrectionists as they were preparing to sack...
Howie KleinJul 17, 20215 minPolitical Violence And The GOP-- Will There Be A Price To Pay At The Polls?Yesterday, the Washington Post published a fascinating report, The Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol hurt the Republican Party by 3 University...
Howie KleinJul 17, 20213 minFor Mo Brooks, Insurrection & Political Violence Are All In A Day's Work Representing AlabamaThis morning, John Pavlovitz wrote of wanting to go back to sleep when he wok up and realized that "people actually still support that...
Howie KleinJul 3, 20214 minOxymoron: Republican PatriotismTrump's 4th of July weekend isn't going the way it was supposed to go. He was supposed to headline a patriotic event in Mobile tomorrow...
Howie KleinJun 6, 20214 minIt's Sunday-- Pray! While It's Still VoluntaryLast night Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman reported that when Trump spoke at the North Carolina GOP convention, he "was both a diminished...
Howie KleinMay 22, 20213 minWhite Evangelicals Are Proud To Be Part Of A Cult-- Not A Jesus Cult, A Trump CultI don't know how many of the 1/6 insurrectionists are criminally insane, but-- like the QAnon Shaman attorney-- I suspect many of them at...
Howie KleinMay 7, 20214 minRepublicans And Evangelicals Are Severely Addicted To Cancel CultureFormer GOP rising star, Ohio Congressman Anthony Gonzalez, is-- like Liz Cheney-- now a victim of virulent Republican Party cancel...
Howie KleinApr 26, 20214 minWill The Millennials Do What The Pitifully Corrupted Democrats Can't-- Vanquish The GOP?Polling in the last few days shows that most Americans (58%) want to take action to shape and change the climate crisis, rather than...
Howie KleinFeb 11, 20217 minEvangelicals Are The Rotten Toxic Core Of Trump's Political-Fiscal AspirationsTrump never liked Pence and even tried to rescind his decision to invite him onto the ticket in 2016. But Pence was supposed to be...
Howie KleinJan 29, 20215 minAnother Right-Wing Grievance/Resentment For Life's Losers: Violent, Nationalistic Religion This TimeYesterday, basing his NY Times column on Taking America Back for God by sociology professors Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, Thomas...
Howie KleinJan 27, 20213 minWhen Is Disunity A Better Goal Than Unity? Want To Unify With Unrepentant Darkness?You know the phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" means? It's kind of a warning that points to an action that would damage...