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<title><![CDATA[Thomas Frank - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14444.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Frank]]></description><category domain="14444">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[If Lab-Leak Theory Is True, Expect Political Earthquake]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/01/wuhan-coronavirus-lab-leak-covid-virus-origins-china</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The potential consequences of the origins of the virus are shattering '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' if they can be proved]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Take a Wrong Turn Toward Censorship, Blacklists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/19/rightwing-misinformation-liberals</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In progressive circles these days, there is a palpable horror of the uncurated world, of thought-spaces flourishing outside the consensus]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can President Joe Biden Mend a Torn America?]]></title>
							<link>https://mondediplo.com/2021/02/02usa</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden wants to unite Americans, but that won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' be easy when disgust at Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s actions matches'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' disbelief at'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' liberal attempts to censor opponents via Silicon Valley. Can there be any return to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' real liberal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' values and a sense of normality?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Need to Reclaim 'Populism' From the Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/12/we-need-to-reclaim-populism-from-the-right-it-has-a-long-proud-leftwing-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA['Populist' has become shorthand for racist authoritarianism. But the first populists were progressive labor activists who fought for democracy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Anti-Populists Stopped Bernie Sanders]]></title>
							<link>https://harpers.org/archive/2020/04/how-the-anti-populists-stopped-bernie-sanders/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harper's Magazine, the oldest general-interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation, through long-form narrative journalism and essays, and such celebrated features as the iconic Harper's Index.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Finally Ready to Unfriend Zuckerberg &amp; Facebook?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/29/facebook-zuckerberg-obama-clinton-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, Barack Obama was drinking in Mark Zuckerberg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s psychobabble about bringing the world together.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Enemy Isn't Your Friend: Don't Defend Amazon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/07/amazon-donald-trump-america-jeff-bezos</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russian Bots Are on the March. Take Cover, Quick!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/russian-bots-us-election-coup-d-etat</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The grand total for all political ad spending in the 2016 election cycle, according to Advertising Age, was'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' $9.8bn. The ads allegedly produced by inmates of a Russian troll farm, which have made up this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ration of horror and panic in the halls of the American punditburo,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia-Facebook Scandal Damages Left as Much as Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/27/russian-facebook-scandal-damages-liberals-right</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[December is the month for retrospectives about the year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most interesting news stories, and my nominee is the tale of the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Russian Facebook advertisements, which burned across front pages a few months ago]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals Still Aghast at Trump, But What Good Has It Done?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/12/aghast-donald-trump-thomas-frank</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has been one year since the US slipped through a hole in the space-time continuum and chose as its leader the most unpopular presidential candidate of all time. Every now and then you get a bracing reminder of the crazy that has been transpiring ever since.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Harvey Weinstein Tells Us About the Liberal World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/21/harvey-weinstein-liberal-world</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let us now consider the peculiar politics of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie producer. Today Weinstein is in the headlines for an astonishing array of alleged sexual harassment and assaults, but once upon a time he was renowned for something quite different: his generous...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Those My Words Coming Out of Steve Bannon's Mouth?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/06/steve-bannons-thomas-frank-wrecking-crew</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Cannot Escape Her White-Collar Worldview]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/12/hillary-clintons-book-what-happened-clear-message</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do you lose the presidency to a man like'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump? He was the most unpopular presidential candidate of all time, compounding blunder with blunder and heaping gaffe upon gaffe. Keeping him from the Oval Office should have been the single-minded mission of the Democratic party....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Media's War on Trump Is Destined to Fail]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/21/media-war-trump-destined-fail?CMP=share_btn_tw</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[hese are the worst of times for the American news media, but they are also the best. The newspaper industry as a whole has been dying slowly for years, as the pathetic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' tale'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of the once-mighty Chicago Tribune reminds us. But for the handful of well funded journalistic enterprises that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[From Rust Belt to Mill Towns: A Tale of Two Voter Revolts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/07/from-rust-belt-to-mill-towns-a-tale-of-two-voter-revolts-thomas-frank-us-and-uk-elections</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Red Shed is a simple, one-storey wooden building in Wakefield that houses a meeting place and a bar. A sign on the front wall informs the world that it has been the meeting place of the Wakefield Labour Club since 1966: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'50 Years a Socialist Shed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems' Davos Ideology Won't Win Back the Midwest]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/27/democratic-party-2018-races-midwest-populism-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tragedy of the 2016 election is connected closely, at least for me, to the larger tragedy of the industrial midwest. It was in the ruined industrial city of Cleveland that the Republican Party came together in convention last July, and it was the deindustrialized, addiction-harrowed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Democrats Could Win Again, If They Wanted]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/29/how-the-democrats-could-win-again-if-they-wanted</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What makes 2016 a disaster for Democrats is not merely the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s epic wipeout in Washington and the state capitals, but that the contest was fought out on a terrain that should have been favorable to them. This was an election about social class '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'about class-based grievances...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Heads to the White House, &amp; Liberals Put Him There]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/donald-trump-white-house-hillary-clinton-liberals</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[month ago I tried to write a column proposing mean nicknames for president-elect Donald Trump, on the basis that it would be funny to turn the tables on him for the cruel diminutives he applied to others. I couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t pull it off. There is a darkness about Trump that negates that sort...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Behind Are Now Having Their Say]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/06/republicans-and-democrats-fail-blue-collar-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Troubling Podesta Emails Show How America Is Run]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/the-podesta-emails-show-who-runs-america-and-how-they-do-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The emails currently roiling the US presidential campaign are part of some unknown digital collection amassed by the troublesome Anthony Weiner, but if your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Isn't Clinton Clobbering Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/06/hillary-clinton-democrats-barack-obama-middle-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The puzzle that is currently frustrating the pundit minds of America is this: why is Hillary Clinton not simply clobbering Donald Trump? How is this ranting, seething buffoon still competitive with her? Trump has now stumbled through a series of the kind of blunders that break ordinary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Democrats Lost Touch on Trade]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/2016-election-working-class-trade-tpp-trade-democrats-214219</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/2016-election-working-class-trade-tpp-trade-democrats-214219]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most startling developments of this most peculiar campaign season has been the emergence of trade as an electrifying political issue. We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re used to trade being the dry province of diplomats and academic economists'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'in large part because, for the past 20 years, trade...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In This Corner of Washington, the Only Ideology Is 'Money']]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/in-this-corner-of-washington-the-only-ideology-is-money/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s difficult to remember those days eight years ago when Democrats seemed to represent something idealistic and hopeful and brave, let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s take a moment and try to recall the stand Barack Obama once took against lobbyists. Those were the days when the nation was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Became the Party of Rich Elites]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/19084/listen-liberal-thomas-frank-democratic-party-elites-inequality</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party was once the party of the New Deal and the ally of organized labor. But by the time of Bill Clinton's presidency, it had become the enemy of New Deal programs like welfare and Social Security and the champion of free trade deals. What explains this apparent reversal?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Denying It: Bill Clinton's Crime Bill Destroyed Lives]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/15/bill-clinton-crime-bill-hillary-black-lives-thomas-frank</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/15/bill-clinton-crime-bill-hillary-black-lives-thomas-frank]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former president made sure low-level drug users felt the full weight of state power at the same moment bankers saw the shackles that bound them removed]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Blue State Model]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-frank/the-blue-state-model-_b_9562960.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000090</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you press Democrats on their uninspiring deeds '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' their lousy free trade deals, for example, or their flaccid response to Wall Street misbehavior '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' when you press them on any of these things, they automatically reply that this is the best anyone could have done. After all,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Clinton's Odious Presidency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/03/13/bill_clintons_odious_presidency_thomas_frank_on_the_real_history_of_the_90s/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Welfare reform. NAFTA. The crime bill. Prisons. Aides wondered if Bill knew who he was. His legacy is sadly clear]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Millions of Ordinary Americans Support Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald-trump-why-americans-support</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let us now address the greatest American mystery at the moment: what motivates the supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump?I call it a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'mystery'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' because the working-class white people who make up the bulk of Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fan base show up in amazing numbers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary and the Democrats' Core Dogmas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/16/the-issue-is-not-hillary-clintons-wall-st-links-but-her-partys-core-dogmas</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stunned by the rise of Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton has been at pains to assure the Democratic rank and file that she too understands their concerns; that just like her rival, she is capable of denouncing wealthy interests, of promising to break up big banks and even of hinting that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Bad Two Weeks for Journalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/12/14/thomas_frank_the_new_republic_the_torture_report_and_the_ted_talks_geniuses_who_gutted_journalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Between the crumbling of a landmark Rolling Stone story and the dynamiting of The New Republic, these have been a bad couple of weeks for journalism. But with the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s report on the CIA'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s torture program on Tuesday, the whole doleful...]]></description>
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