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<title><![CDATA[Jay Cost - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14510.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jay Cost]]></description><category domain="14510">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Roberts' Risks: Justices Aren't Policymakers or Historians]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-features/4641536/john-roberts-risks-justices-not-policymakers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court held that the president could fire a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, who was protected under the authorizing statute.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Renewal Requires Going Back to Foundations]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/features/the-age-of-america/the-machiavellian-moment-returns/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Good laws cannot renew themselves'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'they require a conscientious embodiment of the virtues that produced them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Tariffs Ruling the Proper Domain of Supreme Court?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4480920/supreme-court-tariffs-ruling/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If history is any guide, this conservative moment will not last. The mood and ideology of the court shift slowly, but they do shift.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Border Laws Are Clear, Regardless of How Loudly Left Yells]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3446437/sanctuary-scofflaws-immigration-protests-civil-rights/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The enforcement of the nation's immigration laws is straightforward, regardless of how loudly the progressive Left yells.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Carter 2.0: Biden Another Failed Democratic President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-features/3249809/jimmy-carter-yet-another-democratic-presidency-ends-disaster/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden's failed presidency is comparable to Jimmy Carter's.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump on Cusp of Returning to Office]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-features/3200585/donald-trump-tipping-point-2024-elections/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President Donald Trump is well positioned to reclaim the office he lost four years ago.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Panic Over Whether Biden Is a Surefire Winner in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/beating-biden-democrats-panic</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's evident weakness sends shockwaves through the Democratic establishment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Voters Are a Long Way From Making Up Their Minds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaign/republican-2024-voters-who-will-be-nominee</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party is set for a dramatic battle for its'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 2024 nomination. Former President Donald Trump is a declared candidate. So is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Sen.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Tim Scott'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' (R-SC) has formed an exploratory committee. By all accounts, Gov. Ron...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Food Fight Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/food-fight-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether it's guns, abortion, or gender politics, our policy debates are designed to go nowhere.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Political Power of Inflation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/the-political-power-of-inflation</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By ignoring this economic and social pestilence, Biden will sink his presidency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Expect Losers of Shutdown to Sit Idly by Forever]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/03/dont_expect_losers_of_the_quarantine_to_sit_idly_by_forever_143101.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stay-at-home orders issued by most states have created a puzzling disconnect. On the one hand, opinion polls show the orders to be overwhelmingly popular, but on the other hand there have been protests in states like Michigan and Wisconsin objecting to these quarantines. What to make...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coronavirus Is Killing the Biden Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2020/03/26/coronavirus-is-killing-the-biden-campaign-and-making-him-look-like-a-fool/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a shocking turnaround in his campaign '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' he was nearly left for dead after his crushing defeat in New Hampshire, only to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' become the presumptive nominee'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' after Super Tuesday '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Joe Biden was ready to pivot to a general election campaign against President Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Path to Re-Election in November]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2020/03/22/how-trump-can-win-re-election-in-a-pandemic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago, President Trump seemed poised for victory in November. The economy was strong. The nation was at peace. That is usually a recipe for re-election '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' despite Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s habit of tweeting controversial things.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shutdown Symbolism and What It Means for 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/government-shutdown-symbolism-refighting-2016-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[$5 billion is a pittance in the budget, but blocking it would keep Trump from fulfilling his main campaign promise '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and threaten his reelection.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[By Making Policy, the Supreme Court Has Unhinged Our Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/supreme-court-should-not-make-policy-not-what-founders-intended/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not what the Founders intended, and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s riling up and dividing Americans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hating the Press a Venerable Presidential Tradition]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/trumps-new-enemy/article/2006963</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump declared in a tweet on February 17 that the mainstream press is the enemy of the American People. This inflammatory remark was greeted by outrage mixed with anxiety. Chuck Todd of NBC's Meet the Press spoke for many journalists when he responded, This is not a laughing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Judicial Arrogance Is the Cause of Our Bitter Court Fights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/of-course-court-fights-are-bitter/article/2006774</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to fill the late Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat is bound to provoke yet another political brawl. The conventional wisdom is that this is a bad thing. The increasingly bitter fights over the High Court are a sign that our system of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Should Make Hay Now While They Can]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/what-goes-up.../article/2006291</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[January 20 will be a banner day for the Republican party. On the steps of the Capitol, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the nation's 45th president. In the building behind the ceremony, his party will be ready to enact his program with a sturdy congressional majority. The GOP is in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Losses in the Age of Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-butchers-bill/article/2005543</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has declared he might not follow the tradition of ex-presidents refusing to comment publicly on their successors. In a postelection press conference, he said:I want to be respectful of the office and give the president-elect an opportunity to put forward his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump: The Windbag in Winter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-windbag-in-winter/article/2004971</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton gave a perfunctory debate performance Wednesday night. Facing criticism for her private email server, her record at the State Department, and the Clinton Foundation, she leaned heavily on tiresome talking points, the kind she has repeated again and again on the stump for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Speaks for the Party?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/who-speaks-for-the-party/article/2002992</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our Constitution distributes power broadly across three branches of government, and the federal, state, and local levels. Yet during presidential campaigns, candidates for offices across the country unite behind their party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s presidential nominee. This person becomes the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Please, Governor Romney, Run for President Once More]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/an-open-letter-to-mitt-romney/article/2002732</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dear Governor Romney,I write to you not as a fellow conservative, not as a fellow partisan, but as a citizen of our republic. You have served your nation admirably for many years and by any ordinary standard are entitled to a happy retirement. But these are extraordinary times, and your...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Stand Up to Trump?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-man-in-the-arena/article/2002581</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since he began his campaign, Donald Trump has been defying the conventional norms of politics. Many smart people thought he would not enter the race at all, for fear he would have to reveal he wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t as wealthy as he claimed. Instead, Trump eagerly joined the battle and declared a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lessons of 1912]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-lessons-of-1912/article/2002374</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Donald Trump the presumptive nominee of the Republican party, conservatives face their biggest crisis in generations. Professional Republicans are mostly boarding the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??Trump Train, convinced their self-interest requires party unity, but principled conservatives find the choice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Nomination and the Decaying Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/republican-party-down/article/2002180</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Trump campaign steamrolls ahead, most of us are still scratching our heads. How could this have happened? The usual answer focuses on the grievances of the Trump voter: economic anxiety, frustration with the status quo in politics, the desire to see somebody '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??tell it like it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Disingenuous Whining About Stolen Votes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/conventional-wisdom/article/2001980</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Ted Cruz won every delegate up for grabs at the Colorado Republican convention, Donald Trump began complaining that the process at such conventions is unfair. His claim is that party insiders should not be making these choices, but rather that the power should be vested with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fear Not a Brokered Convention]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/fear-not-a-brokered-convention/article/2001899</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Ted Cruz'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s victory in last week's Wisconsin primary, the odds are rising that the Republican party will have a contested or brokered convention in Cleveland this summer. That presents a host of questions, not only about how such a process would work but whether it would be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Guide to Counting Delegates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-long-game/article/2000702</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conventional wisdom about Republican presidential nominations goes something like this: Either (1) a single candidate wins Iowa and New Hampshire, then sweeps the rest of the field; or (2) the winner in Iowa fails to take New Hampshire, and we wait a few weeks for South Carolina and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump v. Cruz: Game On!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-v.-cruz-game-on/article/2000625#.Vp46Gq1UHr4.twitter</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The battle between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz has finally begun. A few thoughts on this long-anticipated fight:(1) The timing is noteworthy. Whereas other candidates'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??above all Jeb Bush'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??have been trying, with limited success, to hit Trump for some time, Cruz has held back. Here's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Triumph of the Outsiders]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-triumph-of-the-outsiders/article/2000286</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Cost</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With just over a month until the Iowa caucuses, the Republican nomination field is taking clearer form. Of the original 17 candidates, only 4 can be said to remain in top contention: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Ben Carson.What to make of these candidates, and what does their...]]></description>
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