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How Could The Voters Have Ever Let The Democrats Allow The New Deal Era To End?
Neoliberalism Kills It’s April 19, 1935, time for the House to vote on the Social Security Act. Extremely popular with the American...

Howie Klein
Nov 26, 20239 min read
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West Virginia Used To Be A Solid Democratic State... When Will They Come Back?
When I was a kid, I kind of recollect Arkansas and West Virginia being the two most Democratic states in the country. Before I was born,...

Howie Klein
Oct 11, 20234 min read
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Anti-Fascist Conservative Republicans Are Flocking To The Democrats. Are They Bringing Conservatism?
And Economic Progressive Blue Collar Dems Are Going Over To the GOP I always get a good feeling when Obama’s former Solicitor General...

Howie Klein
Sep 22, 202320 min read
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Realignment Is A Two-Way Street-- But It's A Terrible Mistake For Dems To Abandon The Working Class
Yesterday, the NY Times’ right-wing columnist Ross Douthat, asked why Biden is so unpopular. He should have asked why it was that as...

Howie Klein
Sep 10, 20234 min read
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Do You Think The Left Is On The Verge Of Taking Over The Democratic Party?
It's Not, Not The Way The Right Has Absorbed The GOP Marjorie Traitor Greene isn’t right about much, but she was right about Mitch...

Howie Klein
Sep 3, 20238 min read
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The Democratic Party Isn't The Party I Signed Up For-- And The GOP Is Worse Than Ever
It’s weird being the same age as old people We celebrated last night with a couple of adult beverages… Metamucil & Ensure Weight loss...

Howie Klein
Aug 16, 20239 min read
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Why Is It That The More Right-Wing Someone Is, The Less Intrinsically Intelligent They Are?
When Rahm Emanuel finally left the Clinton White House, the conservative who Clinton replaced him with was Doug Sosnik, a DCCC operative...

Howie Klein
Apr 18, 20238 min read
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Political Realignment Keeps On Rolling... And I'm Not So Sure It'll Work Out Too Well For Democrats
FDR and his advisors would find it incredulous but Republicans now control most of the House seats in districts where the median income...

Howie Klein
Mar 25, 20237 min read
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When Did Iowa Turn Into Kansas?
Massachusetts (2004) and Connecticut (2208) legalized same sex marriage before Iowa. But same sex marriage has been legal in Iowa since...

Howie Klein
Mar 22, 20236 min read
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How Long Before The 2 Major Parties Splinter? It's Time
Glenn Altschuler has been teaching at Cornell for 4 decades. His work on popular culture as "contested terrain" between ideologies (the...

Howie Klein
Nov 7, 20216 min read
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Rich Democrats Abandoned The Working Class-- So Guess Who's Been Abandoning The Democrats
As the Democrats expanded the party tent to embrace more upper-middle class voters and Big Money special interests, party support and...

Howie Klein
Oct 6, 20219 min read
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As The Republican Party Collapses...
Last week, Morning Consult polled registered voters and found a wide gap between voters who have a favorable opinion of Biden (55%) and...

Howie Klein
May 30, 20213 min read
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Time For A 3 Party System?
Ipsos took a poll for Reuters about a week ago and found that "62% of Republicans said they had little or no interest in joining a...

Howie Klein
May 17, 20213 min read
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Is It Fair To Refer To The GOP As The Low IQ Party?
The Republican Party was once, and not that long ago, primarily the party of Greed and Selfishness. To win elections, it was forced to...

Howie Klein
Apr 18, 20217 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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"We're Gonna Win Big; Q Just Watch"- Donald J. Trumpanzee
Partisan Realignment Many Republicans no longer believe in democracy or even governance; they believe in QAnon, in Trumpism and in owning...

Howie Klein
Apr 5, 20218 min read
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Which Party Has Earned The Right To Be Called Champions Of The Working Class?
This morning, I responded to a tweet from Politics1 about how there is no room for conservatives inside a fascist movement, which is...

Howie Klein
Mar 16, 202110 min read
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