Hopefulness, Justice... The American Way?
It dawned on me after I posted it that this morning’s post on the fascist personality might be a little depressing, especially just as...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 20
- 6 min
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...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 17
- 6 min
Who's Worse For Society-- The Hate Talk Radio Hosts Spreading Lies Or The Morons Who Listen To Them?
It may sound heartless and cruel, but I have no doubt that if everyone who regularly listens to Hate Talk Radio were all raptured at...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 7
- 5 min
Does It Even Matter Which Crappy Party Wins In November? [Spoiler: This Cycle It Does]
Let’s face it, the Republicans have a lot of over-the-top crazies running this cycle— from gubernatorial hopefuls like Tudor Dixon (MI),...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 17
- 3 min
MAGA-Extremists Despise Jesus And Every Hope He Offers To Mankind
Yesterday, erstwhile evangelical leader Frank Schaeffer tweeted “To use human beings as pawns is despicable. Any evangelical that goes...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 10
- 6 min
Satan Challenged America And If The Battle Isn't Over Yet, It Seems To Be, At Best, A Draw
Last night, Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein reported that Trump and the Department of Justice were fighting over who the special master...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 22
- 11 min
Could Toxic Masculinity Be As Toxic Anywhere As Texas?
This morning everybody was talking about John Pavlovitz’s post on toxic masculinity MAGA style, Our Young Men Deserve Better Than MAGA...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 6
- 4 min
CPAC- Anti-Jesus, Anti-American, Grifter Central, The Future Of The GOP
There hasn’t been much actual news out of CPAC this year— a tin pot fascist from a backward 4th rate Central European mini-state, a...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 21
- 4 min
Reach Out, Touch Faith
I watched the entire Ertuğrul saga on Netflix— 5 seasons, almost 100 episodes per season… all in Turkish. And now I’m watching the...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 4
- 5 min
It's Like The Ghost Of Roger Taney Has Come Back And Infected The Supreme Court
Taney Was One Of The Sparks That Lit The Civil War Conflagration On State of the Union yesterday, Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) told the CNN...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 11
- 7 min
And The Winner Is... Anomie
Nineteenth Century French sociologist Émile Durkheim described a kind of societal derangement which has come to be seen as anomie or...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 25
- 3 min
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...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 12
- 4 min
There'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...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 12, 2021
- 7 min
Can One Prove That Trump Was The Worst President Ever? Easily
Trump is gone, but, alas, far from forgotten. The little he accomplished was disastrous at the time and many of the effects are being...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 12, 2021
- 7 min
Satan's Back... And His Name Is MAGA
My favorite author of all time is Fyodor Dostoevsky, who lived in Czarist Russia between 1821 and 1881, during which time he had a day...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 7, 2021
- 6 min
MAGAs 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...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 28, 2021
- 6 min
Call Me Crazy, But The Democratic Party Isn't The Only One That Needs To Be Put Out Of Its Misery
What's A Wacko Bird? Yesterday, writing for Politico, Meredith McGraw asked if even Trumpworld is starting to realize they've grown too...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 21, 2021
- 6 min
Who 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,...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 5, 2021
- 4 min
Some GOP Politicians Would Rather Share COVID Than Vaccines, Masks & Empathy
My old friend, Danny Goldberg, has a new book out, Bloody Crossroads 2020-- Art, Entertainment And Resistance To Trump. I jotted down a...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 17, 2021
- 5 min
Most Southern Republicans Want To Secede-- They Should Be Encouraged
I have no reason to disbelieve Mo Brooks when he describes his role of revving up armed insurrectionists as they were preparing to sack...
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