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<title><![CDATA[Matthew Continetti - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14411.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Matthew Continetti]]></description><category domain="14411">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Familiar Fight Over Big Government]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/republicans-familiar-fight-over-big-government-5999a06b?st=xjY8fh</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trumpapalooza is over, but the debate over the GOP'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s future is just beginning. Another skirmish broke out last week with news that the Trump administration is planning a change in family policy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Following the Data on Data Centers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/trump-follows-the-data-on-data-centers-f59842fb?st=iJeRqU</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president is right about their economic and national security importance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Milton Friedman Was Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/milton-friedman-was-right-faeb46c6?st=akKz8j</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Milton Friedman died two decades ago, but it seems like he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been in the news every day. Inflation, tariffs, rent controls, price controls'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the issues that dominated his age have returned in ours. Prominent Democrats and Republicans attack Friedman'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s record while proving...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Posterity Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://substack.com/home/post/p-202723376</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I hope Freddy stays in America long enough to visit a classroom. Freddy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'his last name is unknown'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is a German soccer fan whose account of his trip to the U.S. for the World Cup has gone viral on social media.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama&rsquo;s Legacy Is the Trump Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/obamas-legacy-is-the-trump-presidency-d0bc9ed2?st=hHd76E</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His foreign policy was one of retrenchment, and his signature health-insurance law made things worse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders Remaking the American Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/its-the-age-of-sanders-too-54e4120d?st=us9Nxm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Vermont senator has pushed the Democratic Party toward radicalism, antisemitism and redistribution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump&rsquo;s Political Brawling Works]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/why-trumps-political-brawling-works-80e1d69e?st=KpKPFf</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president understands how to impose his will on the GOP. But he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll still have to deal with the broader electorate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[AOC's Poor Understanding of America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/aocs-poor-understanding-of-america-7fe9b546?st=kakp63</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York representative may have forgotten or never learned what makes the Fourth of July special.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Must Finish the Job in Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/finish-the-job-in-iran-58ce1e8b?st=eJFKUL</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The worst thing President Trump could do now is call off the military campaign prematurely.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, You May Already Have Lost the 2028 Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-you-may-already-have-lost-the-2028-election-7bab8946?st=smhdQY</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How can Kamala Harris be the front-runner? Consider the alternatives: Newsom, Buttigieg, AOC, Shapiro.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Minnesota Became Land of 10,000 Frauds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-minnesota-became-the-land-of-10-000-frauds-6602e137?st=zrKhZe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The simple explanation: The state makes it easy for criminals to get away with their wrongdoing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Need More Than a New Messenger]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-democrats-identity-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party has a split personality. It was on full display Tuesday night. Face one: wacky, ideologically fevered, performatively outraged. Face two: collected, reassuring, conventional'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and utterly misleading. The split reflects a deeper problem. Democrats have no power, no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Presidency Will Haunt Us for Years]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/bidens-long-shadow/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest New York Times/Siena College poll has some cautionary data for Kamala Harris and the KHive. The Times found Harris winning Pennsylvania by 4 points, just outside the margin of error, but deadlocked with Donald Trump nationwide. While Harris beats Trump by 13 points on who best...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biden-Harris Mental Gymnastics]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-biden-harris-mental-gymnastics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Paris Olympics begin on July 26, and Democrats are ready. They've been performing mental gymnastics for the last month.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Divided, Demoralized Dems Slouch Toward Election]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/elections/the-democrats-no-win-scenario/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden's high-stakes press conference at this week's NATO summit was a triumph'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for his challenger, former president Trump.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden: Slip Slidin' Away]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/biden-slip-slidin-away/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden "shows signs of slipping," the Wall Street Journal reported this week. Journalists Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'no conservatives'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'spoke to 45 people who have met with the president and noticed his mental and physical decline.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Biden-Trump Debates Matter?]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/will-the-biden-trump-debates-even-matter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the political equivalent of a new Taylor Swift album dropping in the night: At 8 a.m. on May 15, with no advance warning, President Biden challenged former president Donald Trump to a debate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is 2024's Chaos Candidate]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/joe-biden-is-2024s-chaos-candidate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The electorate views the instability that Trump brought differently than the disorder that Biden unleashed. Once there was a single]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Loses the Plot on Israel]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/biden-loses-the-plot-on-israel/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six months. That's how long it took for President Biden to call for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas terrorists who killed some 1,200 people, raped women, tortured and murdered children, and took more than 200 captives, including American citizens, into the maze of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Political Realignment Is Real]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/americas-political-realignment-is-real/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Donald Trump is elected president in November, he will have assembled a coalition unlike any Republican nominee in my lifetime.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Bridge to Nowhere]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/bidens-bridge-to-nowhere/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in 2020, Joe Biden addressed concerns that he would be the oldest president in history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Knows He's Losing]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/biden-knows-hes-losing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The two impeachments, the 91 counts across 4 indictments, the huge civil penalties, the almost-a-decade-long trail of controversy and scandal, the warnings from former senior officials, the shadow of January 6, 2021'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'none of it has sidelined Trump. None of it has changed the dynamic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Think About a Two-Incumbent Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/how-to-think-about-a-two-incumbent-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans are about to face a choice between two incumbent presidents. The idea sounds oxymoronic: a political version of the Pauli Exclusion Principle in physics, whereby two particles cannot occupy the same space at once. Yet that is precisely the situation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'barring an act of God...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Troubles Run Deeper Than the Poor Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/bidenomics-wont-save-this-presidency/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden's latest pitch for]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Secret to McCarthy's Success]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-secret-to-mccarthys-success/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) notched a victory for himself and for Republicans with Wednesday's passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. The bill will raise the debt ceiling through 2025, claw back pandemic and IRS spending, improve welfare programs, speed up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The DeSantis Doctrine]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-desantis-doctrine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.) announced his presidential candidacy during a Twitter Spaces event Wednesday, but it was Elon Musk's show. The Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO received co-billing with Florida's governor. Moderator David Sacks, an investor and former executive at PayPal,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Very Invisible Republican Primary]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-very-invisible-republican-primary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump won the presidency by the seat of his pants in 2016. Republicans have lost the House, the White House, the Senate, and governor's mansions in the years since. He has been impeached twice. In the past month he has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury and found liable, in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump&rsquo;s 2024 Campaign Bounced Back]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/how-donald-trumps-2024-campaign-bounced-back/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump spent the final months of 2022 reeling from electoral setbacks and media disasters. Many of his high-profile endorsements in the midterm elections flopped. His attacks on popular GOP governors in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Georgia did little damage to their reputations....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Future Is Florida]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-gop-future-is-florida/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans and conservatives dismayed at the happenings on Capitol Hill may want to turn their gaze southward. On January 3, as the race for speaker of the House went to multiple ballots for the first time in a century, Ron DeSantis began his second term as governor of Florida. As I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Stagflation President]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-stagflation-president/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Continetti</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another month, another bad report. On October 13 the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that consumer price inflation, at an 8.2 percent annualized rate, was higher than expected through September. Americans continue to experience the worst inflation in four decades. They continue to...]]></description>
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