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As A Party, The GOP Is Dead... And MAGA Has A Way To Make Kamala Harris Look Good
Reporting for Business Insider last week John Dorman and Brent Griffiths wrote that DeSantis and his [illegally coordinated] super PACs...

Howie Klein
Jan 21, 20244 min read


More Than Anything Else, Trump Wants Payback
So Do Millions Of Voters Who Have No One To Blame For Their Sense Of Humiliation But Themselves Generally speaking, Trump doesn’t have a...

Howie Klein
Jan 18, 20244 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


There Are No Good Republicans In Congress-- But There Certainly Are Plenty Of Bad Democrats There
In case you couldn’t guess that an Atlantic column by Tom Nichols, titled The Source of America’s Political Chaos was about Señor...

Howie Klein
Oct 15, 20233 min read


Kevin Agonistes, Squeaker Of The House
Future Historians, Writing About How America Discarded Democracy To Embrace Fascism, Will Have To Remember Names Like Kirsten Welker,...

Howie Klein
Sep 20, 20238 min read


The Mug, Part II
Fox anchor Eric Bolling dug up Sarah Palin to interview as Señor Trumpanzee was being booked on Thursday evening. She fulminated about...

Howie Klein
Aug 26, 20236 min read


Putin Isn't Going To Face Trial For Murdering Yevgeny Prigozhin And The 9 Others On The Plane
I started reading the anti-Putin Moscow Times when I was in Moscow a few years ago. They got more and more anti-Putin and they are now...

Howie Klein
Aug 25, 202312 min read


Trump Will Be Remembered As An Important Part Of American History-- Every Student Will Know His Name
These Charges Will Be Forever Attached To Donald J. Trump A few hours after the indictment was unsealed yesterday, UCLA law professor...

Howie Klein
Aug 2, 20238 min read


The Nature Of Conservatism Is Inherently Anti-Intellectual, Grounded In Paranoia & Victimhood
Yesterday, Tom Nichols wished aloud that we could rescue “our love of country”— patriotism— from those who have hijacked it. He found...

Howie Klein
Jul 5, 20237 min read


The Insurrection, Coup, Civil War… Whatever It Is/Was, In Russia Grabbed All The Front Pages
Is It The End For Putin Anyway? Yesterday we woke up to reports that the Wagner Group was in a full-scale rebellion and that Russia...

Howie Klein
Jun 25, 202316 min read


The Sad GOP Field— Almost As Pathetic As The Democratic Field
Larry Ellison has a net worth north of $125 billion. He’s almost 80 and will be roasting in hell for eternity soon enough. Too bad his...

Howie Klein
May 24, 20236 min read


Santos Is A Shoddy, Off The Rack Version Of Trump Who Couldn't Quite Pull It Off
There'll Be A Movie About Trump-- But About Santos? Unless he’s even stupider than he comes across, the dance George Santos, or whatever...

Howie Klein
May 12, 20236 min read


Will Tomorrow Be A Circus? A Bloodbath? A Big Fat Zero? With Trump It's Always About The TV Ratings
Trump is the only one talking about an indictment tomorrow. The authorities have said nothing and even Trump's lawyers have said he's...

Howie Klein
Mar 20, 20236 min read


People Say DeSantis Is Autistic. If It’s True, It’s The Only Interesting Thing I’ve Heard About Him
On Friday the NY Times assigned a top political reporter, Michael Bender, to cover Ron DeSantis’ visit to Iowa, billed as a stop on his...

Howie Klein
Mar 11, 20235 min read


I Bet Murdoch Wishes He Could Cut Tucker Carlson Loose Before He Tanks Fox Any Further
Sloppy Riot Revisionism At Fox It’s been a bad couple of days for Tucker Carlson... although maybe not inside his own bubble. I wonder...

Howie Klein
Mar 8, 20238 min read


Hitler, Timothy McVeigh & Kyle Rittenhouse Were All "Lost Boys"-- Are Their Any MAGAts Who Aren't?
Tom Nichols has been writing about the Lost Boys syndrome for years and he was on it again yesterday, in an Atlantic column he called The...

Howie Klein
Jan 30, 20234 min read


Travails & Self-Inflicted Tribulations Of The Speaker-In-Name-Only
Last night, Tom Nichols discussed how McCarthy is paying off his debts to the GOP’s extremist fringe, “by engaging in petty payback,...

Howie Klein
Jan 26, 20235 min read


There's No Reason To Believe That There Will Ever Be A Single Good Day In The 118th Congress
Jonathan Bernstein reported this morning that though McCarthy “made many concessions” to win over the votes of the fascist fringe, one...

Howie Klein
Jan 10, 20234 min read


What's Worse, Members Of Congress Selling Out To SBF Or Members Of Congress Plotting A Coup?
Ted Budd Was Doing Both At The Same Time! Remember when the DOJ seized Pennsylvania insurrection Scott Perry’s phone back in August?...

Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20225 min read


Let Me Be The First To Say It: Never-DeSantis
Yesterday, Tom Nichols noted that really opposing Trumpism means opposing “everything Donald Trump has done to American civic life, and...

Howie Klein
Dec 1, 20225 min read
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