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<title><![CDATA[Joe Klein - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14556.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Joe Klein]]></description><category domain="14556">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson Was Never Going To Be President, But He Led]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/jesse</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He was Somebody]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Blindness: The False Gloss of Optimism]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/dem-blindness</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a specter haunting the Democratic Party. It is the fantasy of economic determinism. It is the notion that if the Dems focus on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'affordability,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' they can get away with ignoring everything else. But by ignoring everything else'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'especially the identity issues that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/going-caracas</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The exfiltration of Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela displayed U.S. military tacticians and operators at their spectacular best. The operation was flawless. As has been stated repeatedly, no other military could have brought this off.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Difficulty of Reform in Journalism]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/on-bari-weiss</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I watch the Fox news with Bret Baier most nights and then I dip into the CBS evening news. Interesting contrast. Baier plays his news pretty straight, but he annoys me at times, especially in his interview sessions, when questions go unasked.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Journalistic Ethics: Stalking an Oxymoron?]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/on-journalistic-ethics</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I probably wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be telling this story if former SecDef Robert Gates hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t told it first, in his memoirs. It happened in 2008. Barack Obama was running for President. In a late summer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'I think'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'interview, I asked Obama if he would keep Gates as SecDef if he won....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Generation of Leadership or the Same Old Song?]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/a-new-generation-of-leadership</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent Substack chat exchange, following a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Two Joes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' (that is, me and Trippi) podcast, I received a coveted '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Ok Boomer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' response from a young woman who apparently was unable to converse in language other than left-wing jargon. It was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'obvious'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to her that we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Long Way To Go Before Centrists Can Be Asked To Trust Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/no-kings-no-royal-flush</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I had mixed feelings about No Kings Day before it happened and mixed feelings now that it is over.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cuomo for Mayor]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/andrew-cuomo-for-mayor</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A long time ago, when I was the political columnist for'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' New York'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' magazine, I got a phone call from Andrew Cuomo. He was just a kid, then. His dad, Mario, was governor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';'and I wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t being very nice to Mario. ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You have a father and son relationship with Mario,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Naughty Centrist--Part II]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/the-naughty-centrist-ii</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I began my adult life as a fairly standard 1960s lefty sort, though not an extreme one. I marched against the war in Vietnam and against racism, but was never arrested or beaten by the cops. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m not sure how others, especially my peers, would describe me now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Naughty Centrist--Part I]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/the-naughty-centrist-part-i</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has boggled the Democrats yet again. He has sent troops into the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s capital, a classic bit of Donaldrama.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Attention Jews: Time for a Serious Think]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/attention-jews</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Well, I was thinking of calling this post, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Achtung Juden,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' but that would have been foolishly melodramatic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and while we Jews can do melodrama with the best of them, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s usually the better part of valor for us to write elegant sentences rather than excessive ones. We...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats: The No (Intellectual) Growth Party]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/the-no-intellectual-growth-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the Democrats Stagnate]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Notion That Iran Will Turn Out To Be Iraq Is Unlikely]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/what-if</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hopes and Fears. J.D. Vance walked into the standard American stupidity trap, the same one that George W. Bush walked into when he proclaimed '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Mission Accomplished'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in Iraq. Wars tend, always, to be worse than expected. Except, maybe, this one.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York Serenade: The City Has Fallen on Depressing Times]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/new-york-serenade</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a journalist, my two favorite political events were the New Hampshire primary and the New York City mayoral election. The intensity was amazing. Madness and glory in very small places.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thoughts About the Israel-Iran War]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/bomb-iran</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some Thoughts About The War]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tap Tap Tapping on Biden's Door]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/tap-tap-tapping-on-bidens-door</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What the Democrats' Real Conversation Should Be]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Patriot Option]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/the-patriot-option</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am, unabashedly, an American patriot. This is a great country. It doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t need to be made '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'great again,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' because it already is, in concept and spirit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[100 Daze]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/100-daze</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And an inspiring false alarm.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bob Dylan and Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/bob-dylan-and-freedom</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We finally watched'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'No Direction Home,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'A Complete Unknown,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the movie about Bob Dylan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s early years in New York. It was excellent, a study in elusiveness of genius and the quest for freedom. Given what Sanity Goddess and I have seen so far (not all of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Slotkin's Response Says About Democratic Party's Future]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/the-slotkin-response</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And what it may say about the Democratic Party's future]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has There Already Been a Coup?]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/the-sound-of-heads-exploding</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have two kinds of friends. Those whose heads have exploded'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';'and those who expect their heads will explode in the next few months. For the former, the coup has already taken place. Elon Musk and his naughty boys have hacked the government. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no force strong enough to stop...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Democrats Be Saved? I Have My Doubts]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/still-crazy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And Happy Anniversary to Sanity Clause]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[...On Day One]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/on-day-one</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My first reaction was hopeful: He was wearing a blue tie with red dots that came across as purplish. Purplish, not his usual brazen red. Ah, unity? Trump cares about appearances. He sends messages through appearances. He also didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t use the term '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'American Carnage'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Going To Need a Very Different Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/defining-mediocrity-down</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats are about to recede for a while. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve proven they have nothing of interest to say right now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gulf of Trumpico]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/the-gulf-of-trumpico</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll not fall for the bait. I watched Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s press conference. I will take him seriously, but not literally. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s negotiating. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sending messages. And I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t think the messages are all that terrible. He is haggling for better rates for American ships in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter, the Faithful Servant]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/jimmy-carter</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Faithful Servant]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[David Gergen: A Good Man Drifting Away]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/david-gergen</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My friend David Gergen has dementia. It was announced in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a sad and lovely Boston Globe column'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' by his daughter Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett. I do not want to wait until he leaves us to pay tribute to this splendid man. We were not close friends, but political soulmates; we came from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Tromps Press]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/trump-tromps-press</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And yet, a honeymoon persists...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not a Democrat. The Party Left Me]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/not-a-democrat</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been thinking about those post-Dukakis days a lot since the election. And how hard it was, how much flak we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the Democratic Leadership Council, and the Progressive Policy Institute, and other sources of Sanity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'took from the left.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[OOOF! Where Lies Sanity Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://josephklein.substack.com/p/ooof</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joe Klein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m not going to write much today. Too much to assimilate. Too easy to succumb to the blame game. Unchecked, I might write something on the order of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Bret Stephens today. No doubt, the Democratic Party will have to change or wither now'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but that can wait for another day....]]></description>
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