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<title><![CDATA[John Judis - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14491.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Judis]]></description><category domain="14491">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Death of the Professional-Managerial Class]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-death-of-the-professional-managerial-class/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Kamala Harris's defeat in 2024, one heard often that Democrats needed to focus on class rather than identity. But what exactly does it mean to focus on class?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats in Political Denial on Immigration?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/tom-steyers-disastrous-immigration-plan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Democrats attempt to supplant and replace Donald Trump and the Republicans in the 2026 and 2028 elections, lesson number one should be: Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t counter Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s maximalist policies with maximalism of your own on the issues that got the party into trouble in the 2016 and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Persistence of Lesser-Evil Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-persistence-of-lesser-evil-politics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There have been five comprehensive surveys of public opinion in the last two weeks that attempt to assess President Donald Trump's standing with the public at the end of his first hundred days.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Have All the Young Democrats Gone?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/where-have-all-the-young-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the 2008 election, Democrats have been counting on young voters as an essential part of what they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' called'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a "new American majority." But the 2024 election may have spelled the end of the youth vote as a dependable part of the Democrats' coalition. Parts of it should...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The DNC and the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-dnc-and-the-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is to be done to repair the party's national identity?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Social Media Driving Young People Crazy?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/is-social-media-driving-young-people</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a formal Advisory, Social Media and Youth Mental Health, warning that social media can have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents. The report called on policy-makers to]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Enduring Power of the Feminist Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-enduring-power-of-the-feminist</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My old friend Eli Zaretsky, the author of Capitalism, the Family, and Personal Life, has often told me that of all the movements of the Sixties, the feminist revolution has had the most intense psychological impact on American life and politics. The point is debatable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'certainly the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Voters Worried About Biden's Age?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/why-are-voters-worried-about-bidens</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's all about appearances.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats and the Rise of Racial Radicalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-democrats-and-rise-of-racial</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How racial radicalism has undermined the Democrats' appeal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Foreign-Policy Abyss]]></title>
							<link>https://compactmag.com/article/biden-s-foreign-policy-abyss</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden has done a good job getting domestic and international economic legislation through Congress, but he has proved far less successful in what was supposed to be his forte: foreign policy. With wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza, and the threat of a regional conflict in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Curb Illegal Immigration--and Why It Won't Happen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/how-to-curb-illegal-immigrationand</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past decades, undocumented immigrants, largely concentrated among the unskilled and those without higher education, have exerted downward pressure on wages in agriculture, construction, food preparation and meatpacking, building maintenance, retail sales, and the hospitality...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everything You Need To Know About the Immigration Mess]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And the Senate debate over how to end it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Have All the Democrats Gone?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/clinton-democrats-lost-elite-liberals</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the past few decades, the Democratic Party has undergone a seismic shift. Kitchen-table issues like the economy and public safety have been overshadowed by more elitist topics like identity politics, gender ideology, defunding the police, climate change, and the vaguely defined yet...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What It Will Take To Make America Great]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/what-it-will-take-to-make-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A response to Michael Kazin's review of Where Have All the Democrats Gone?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is There a New Left Stirring Within the New Right?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/is-there-a-new-left-stirring-within</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since Donald Trump's election in 2016, there has been talk of a "new right" that breaks with Ronald Reagan's brand of conservatism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gaping Hole in the Center of the Electorate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-gaping-hole-in-the-center-of</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What does American politics look like? There is a widespread view among political scientists and political consultants that the electorate has become inextricably polarized between Democrats and Republicans and there is a very small group of swing voters that decide national and some...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Should Worry About British Labour's Collapse]]></title>
							<link>https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/democrats-should-worry-about-british-labours-collapse</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In December 2019, the British Labour Party suffered its worst defeat since 1935. Last Thursday, with a spate of local races and a parliamentary bye-election as the result of a resignation, Labour under its new leader Keir Starmer had a chance to redeem itself. But Labour lost the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the 'Blue Wave' Didn't Happen: First Thoughts on the Election]]></title>
							<link>https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/election#more-1343614</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A lot of people, including me, were misled by opinion polls into thinking that Democrats would make out like bandits in this election the way they did in 2018. As the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'blue wave'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' has receded, many Democrats have gone to the opposite extreme and pronounced that outside of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Left Misses About Nationalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/nationalism-trump-globalization-immigration.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The perception of a common national identity is essential to democracies and to the modern welfare state.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump Gets Right on Trade, Globalization]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/151140/trump-right-free-trade-globalization</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an important truth behind his attack on globalization.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Two Sides of Immigration Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/two-sides-immigration-policy-0</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During his campaign, Donald Trump used the issue of illegal immigration as a nativist dog whistle. According to Trump, Mexico was sending criminals over the border. He called for deporting the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strident appeals...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Argued Demographics Favored Dems. I Was Wrong.]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144547/redoing-electoral-math-argued-demographics-favored-democrats-wrong</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If any force on Earth could be powerful enough to unite the Democratic Party, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d have thought the words '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' would do the trick. Instead, Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s defeat last November only served to intensify the split within the party. Nine months in,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Socialism America Needs Now]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144492/socialism-america-needs-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the early 1970s, I was a founding member of the New American Movement, a socialist group that later merged with another (the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee) to create what is still the Democratic Socialists of America. Earlier, I had been a member of SDS (Students for a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On the Eve of Disruption: Final Thoughts on '16 Race]]></title>
							<link>http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/--100887</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump, as his pollster Tony Fabrizio later explained, focused entirely on swing states, and didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t try to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'run up the score'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in states like Texas, Georgia and Arizona that Trump expected to win. From October 21 to election day, Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ad spending was entirely focused...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Identity Politics Couldn't Clinch a Clinton Win]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-identity-politics-couldnt-clinch-a-clinton-win/2016/11/11/ed3bf966-a773-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the Rage]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/136327/all-rage-sanders-trump-populism</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On November 9, the day after this year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election, Donald Trump may well join Bernie Sanders as a footnote to U.S. history. But that doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t mean that their candidacies will vanish without a trace. In a decade or two, American politics may look as strange to us as the...]]></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>John Judis</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[Trump's Victory Speech Should Give Dems Reason to Worry]]></title>
							<link>http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of May when Trump sewed up the Republican nomination, I thought he could go in three different directions: first, he could continue as the dark prince of political incorrectness, skewering Muslims and Mexican-Americans; second, he could become a conventional Republican,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Should Drop Out &amp; Endorse Hillary. Period.]]></title>
							<link>http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/--100724</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders may win California today, but whether or not he does, he won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t have enough delegates to deny the nomination to Hillary Clinton. But Sanders says he is going to carry the fight to the convention, and his campaign talks of prying loose super-delegates and waging...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Political Parties Ever Look the Same?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/after-2016-will-the-political-parties-ever-look-the-same/2016/03/11/07a18da6-e709-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Judis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even if Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t win the presidency, their candidacies have roiled the waters of American party politics. Within the GOP, those white voters who began migrating from the Democrats 50 years ago have become restive. On the Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' side, young...]]></description>
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