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Kelly Scaletta

Stop Telling Me How to Talk to Anti-Vaxers

Frankly, I don’t need any more lectures about how I need to patiently explain to anti-vaxers why Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective.

4 min readAug 1, 2021

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Kelly Scaletta

The GOP is the Party of Doublethink

If you never read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, you may not know what “doublethink” is. Or you may have just forgotten about it.

4 min readJul 10, 2021

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The GOP is the Party of Doublethink

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It’s not just Tulsa: A Brief American History of White-on-Black Massacres

The centennial of the Tulsa massacre has brought a lot of attention to the tragedy that killed more than 800 people and destroyed the…

13 min readJun 1, 2021

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It’s not just Tulsa: A Brief American History of White-on-Black Massacres

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Kelly Scaletta

How to solve the filibuster problem

The filibuster is an unintended and misunderstood aspect of our current state of political affairs which has also obstructed significant…

4 min readFeb 4, 2021

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How to solve the filibuster problem

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Kelly Scaletta

About those calls for unity

During the second Impeachment of Donald J. Trump, Republican after Republican said that this was not the time for impeachment, but a time…

5 min readJan 18, 2021

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About those calls for unity

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How 2020 is different from 2016

You can’t say the word “polls” without someone bring up 2016. But there’s a lot that is very from 2016, and we need to understand that…

5 min readOct 31, 2020

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How 2020 is different from 2016

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Kelly Scaletta

The Tyranny of the Minority

For various reasons, some good and some not so good, the founding fathers came up with a document that would protect us from the “tyranny…

3 min readOct 21, 2020

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The Tyranny of the Minority

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Why conservatives are so weird about being a “republic”

There’s a segment of conservatives who like to make the argument: “We’re a republic, not a democracy?”

4 min readOct 17, 2020

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Why conservatives are so weird about being a “republic”

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So about that enthusiasm gap

For months, we’ve heard about the “enthusiasm” gap: The notion that supporters of Donald Trump are more “enthusiastic” therefore the…

3 min readOct 14, 2020

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So about that enthusiasm gap

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Kelly Scaletta

Shut up, Karen, the Adults Are Talking

In 2016, there was story after story about “trying to understand” the Donald Trump supporters and their “economic anxiety.” Yeah, that…

4 min readJul 17, 2020

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Shut up, Karen, the Adults Are Talking

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Kelly Scaletta

Kelly Scaletta

I write for several outlets as an NBA analyst, including Bleacher Report, FanRag, Dime, BBallBreadown and RealBallInsiders. My political views are my own.

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