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<title><![CDATA[Rick Perlstein - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14433.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Rick Perlstein]]></description><category domain="14433">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Minimizing Watergate Is a Republican Tradition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/28/reagan-jd-vance-nixon-watergate-republicans</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the American right, there is an unbroken lineage of Watergate propaganda going back to the 70s from today]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Independent Media Hustle]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/2024-06-19-independent-media-hustle-josh-marshall-tpm/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How Josh Marshall has sustained Talking Points Memo amid the wreckage of modern journalism]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Political Depression Problem--and Ours]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-29-my-political-depression-problem/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Granular study of the ever-more-authoritarian right didn't demoralize the author as much as reaction from the left.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Anti-Antisemitism]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-08-new-anti-antisemitism-college-protests-gaza/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Hole in the Culture]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/2024-01-31-hole-in-the-culture/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why is there so little art depicting the moment we're in?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was Jimmy Carter an Outlier?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kai-bird-jimmy-carter-outlier/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politicians say things to get elected and then, once in office, do otherwise; that's politics. But Carter demanded that we grade him on a curve.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Political Magic of Democrats' Infrastructure Plan]]></title>
							<link>https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-american-families-plan-infrastructure-public-services</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden and the Democrats have put forward proposals that would finally invest in public services that help humans flourish.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's First Priority: Undo the Damage Done by Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-mcconnell-executive-action-senate-cabinet-appointees-congress-vacancies-act</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden can make progressive appointments and executive actions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'no matter who controls the Senate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump More Paranoid &amp; Dangerous Than Nixon]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/138911/hes-making-list-trump-paranoid-dangerous-nixon</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump and Richard Nixon have at least one thing in common: They are the two most paranoid and vindictive men ever to win the presidency. Both came to power armed with enemies lists, vowing to seek revenge against those who stood in their way. Both roamed the mansions of power late...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. Trump, You're No Richard Nixon]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/135440/mr-trump-youre-no-richard-nixon</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I never thought I would say this, but: poor Richard Nixon. Last week, Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, raised eyebrows when he promised last night'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s acceptance speech would be based on Nixon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s in 1968: no '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'happy talk'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' about unity, just a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[19 Reasons Democrats Will Remain Divided]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/133776/split</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Throughout most of the 2016 presidential primaries, the media focused on the noisy and reactionary rift among Republicans. Until the battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders turned acrimonious in the home stretch, far less attention was paid to the equally momentous divisions...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the American Party System About to Crack Up?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/is-the-party-system-about-to-crack-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scarcely a day goes by without political seismologists offering new evidence to suggest that the tectonic plates of American politics are on the verge of a profound and unsettling shift. Too much stress has built up along too many ideological and demographic fault lines for things to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-sudden-but-well-deserved-fall-of-rahm-emanuel?intcid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to remember a time when Rahm Emanuel wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a Democratic Party superstar. Go back to 1991, when the thirty-two-year-old took over fund-raising for Bill Clinton. He was soon renowned for making the staff come to work on Sundays, shrieking into the phone to donors...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gun Nuts Are Terrorizing America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/06/23/gun_nuts_are_terrorizing_america_the_watershed_moment_everyone_missed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here is a truth so fundamental that it should be self-evident: When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger. And yet that is exactly what happened at Cliven Bundy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Nevada ranch this spring:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Today's Wacko Birds Are Yesterday's Wingnuts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/177018/grand-old-tea-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But this is not 2013. It is 1964. The business-friendly president is Lyndon Johnson, and the Republican insurgents are followers of Barry Goldwater. Moderate Republicans are on the run. The most powerful establishment Republican in Washington is by most measures a conservative. He argues...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Permanent Dem Majority Is Not Inevitable, Part II]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/173444/why-democratic-majority-not-demographic-inevitability-part-two-politics-immigration-refo#</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In February, I wrote the first part in a promised series about why today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political conventional wisdom'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'that, as Jonathan Chait put it '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'conservative America will soon come to be dominated, in a semi-permanent fashion, by an ascendant Democratic coalition hostile to its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Permanent Democratic Majority Is Not Inevitable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/172645/arguments-against-arguments-democratic-demographic-inevitability-part-one-antecedents</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory over Mitt Romney a certain argument became ubiquitous: the argument from demographic inevitability. That the Republican Party, absent deep-seated changes that are all but unimaginable, is in for a generation or more of electoral doom. Indeed the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Listen Up, Democrats: No Compromise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/america_didnt_vote_for_a_grand_bargain/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By 10 p.m. on Tuesday, it was all over but the shouting '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the shouting of Karl Rove, incredulous that Fox News'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'decision desk'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' would dare deploy the best statistical evidence at its disposal to call Ohio for the president; the shouting of wingnuts everywhere that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[9/11: Solidarity Squandered]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=solidarity_squandered2</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The day began in a dull civic deadness. It was an election day, the second Tuesday in September, in one of the world'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s most political cities. The weather was perfect: a cloudless Indian-summer day. The polls opened at six in the morning. But no one was showing up. Did it even matter who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey: America's Forgotten Liberal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/opinion/27Perlstein.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[January was the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s birth, and the planet nearly stopped turning on its axis to recognize the occasion. Today is the 100th anniversary of Hubert H. Humphrey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s birth, and no one besides me seems to have noticed.That such a central figure in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Fact-Free Nation]]></title>
							<link>http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/history-political-lying</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing  to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it. The  former has always been with us: Kings, corporate executives,  politicians, and ideologues from both sides of the aisle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[That Seventies Show]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/155492/seventies-show</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've been calling 1973, as I sort through my research for a political  and cultural history of the United States in the '70s, the Year Without  Christmas Lights. News of fuel shortages'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'what would come to be called  the "energy crisis"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'had begun cropping up in the spring, around...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems' Dismal, Detached Design]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/09/24/2010-09-24_dems_dismal_detached_design_i_thought_team_obama_knew_branding.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It looks like the insignia you'd expect to see on the side of a Danish police boat. Or the letter in the alphabet that comes after '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'.Or the logo for a service station chain where you can microwave a burrito or grab a giant bag of beef jerky any day of the year. Or a near-failing grade...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Crazy Tree Blooms]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081401495.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our American Common Sense]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/190349</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Age of Nixon: The Left, the Right &amp; the '60s]]></title>
							<link>http://www.reason.com/news/show/126869.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Jump on the McCain Express]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20080421&amp;s=perlstein</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rick Perlstein</author>
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