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<title><![CDATA[Thomas Edsall - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14788.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Edsall]]></description><category domain="14788">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[3 Things Dems Have To Do if They Actually Want To Win]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even now, according to a new survey by the left-leaning group Data for Progress, the Democratic Party has a net negative rating of minus 29 percentage points among swing voters, worse than the minus 25 for the Republican Party. Democrats seeking to restore their party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s credibility...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are So Many Dem Politicians So Far Out of Touch?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In January 2025, when the U.S. House took up legislation to bar trans women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s participation on women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sports teams, all but two Democratic representatives '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' voted against the bill.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump Administration&rsquo;s Relentless Assault on the Left]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has unleashed new weaponry in his war against Democrats, liberals and the left. Over the past four weeks, he has initiated what amounts to a unique form of partisan civil war designed to amass power in a nominal democracy and defang, decimate and defund the opposition.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Scientists Want To Know Why We Hate Each Other]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/06/19/political-scientists-want-to-know-why-we-hate-each-other-this-much/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who among us are the most willing to jettison democratic elections? Which voters not only detest their political adversaries, but]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Would Be Long Gone if Only We Could...]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/06/12/trump-would-be-long-gone-if-only-we-could/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A central predicament of the Biden campaign is how to persuade voters to abandon Donald Trump. In 2012 the Obama]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One Thing Keeping Democrats Up at Night]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no question that a substantial number of minority voters are shifting to the right, but is it a party realignment?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump's MAGA 'Superpower' Actually His 'Kryptonite'?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/02/07/is-trumps-maga-superpower-actually-his-kryptonite/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What does President Biden have to do to catch up to Donald Trump?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' According to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Michael Podhorzer, former political director of the AFL-CIO, exposing and clarifying Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2025 agenda will be crucial to Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s success or failure:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Roots of Trump's Rage]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/22/the-roots-of-trumps-rage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Brian Klaas, a political scientist at University College London, captures the remarkable nature of the 2024 presidential election in an Oct. 1 essay, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Case for Amplifying Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Insanity.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel-Hamas War Is Splintering Democratic Coalition]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/08/the-longer-and-bloodier-the-war-the-harder-it-will-be-for-the-democratic-coalition/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel and Israel's retaliatory strikes on Gaza are creating a fissure between Democratic constituencies crucial]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not Your Father's Democratic Party. Whose Party Is It?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/08/16/its-not-your-fathers-democratic-party-but-whose-party-is-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Has the left's half-century-long struggle to return the Democratic Party to its working class roots become an exercise in futility?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biden-Trump Rematch Is Already Here]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/05/the-biden-trump-rematch-is-already-here/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most significant developments in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election has emerged largely under the radar.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Really Saved the Democrats This Year?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/12/21/what-really-saved-the-democrats-this-year/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the Democratic Party, despite its better-than-expected showing in the 2022 midterm elections, internecine combat has been playing out in]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Having Trouble Holding Onto Their Coalition]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/19/democrats-are-having-trouble-holding-onto-their-coalition/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats in cities across America are having trouble holding their coalitions together. In Los Angeles, the battle is over power]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Are 2 Americas Now: One With a B.A. &amp; One Without]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/05/there-are-two-americas-now-one-with-a-b-a-and-one-without/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party has become crucially dependent on a segment of white voters suffering what analysts call a mortality penalty.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Tell When Your Country Is Past the Point of No Return]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/opinion/republicans-democracy-minority-rule.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political analysts, scholars and close observers of government are explicitly raising the possibility that the polarized American electoral system has come to the point at which a return to traditional democratic norms will be extremely difficult, if not impossible.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Won't Let America Go. Can Democrats Pry It Away?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/opinion/trump-democrats-republicans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The radicalized G.O.P. is the main anti-democratic force.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Moral Chasm Between Left &amp; Right Is Widening]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/opinion/left-right-moral-chasm.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The things that are driving us apart are going to keep driving us apart.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Experts Agree: We're Becoming a Different Country]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/opinion/us-elites-populism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tolerance and intolerance are taking on many different guises.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Strong Is America's Multiracial Democracy?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/opinion/us-multiracial-democracy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent research on racism, prejudice and politics suggests a broad range of possibilities.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Eric Adams Really the 'Face of the New Democratic Party'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/opinion/eric-adams-kathryn-garcia-maya-wiley.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A lot hinges on the answer '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and not just in New York.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trumpism Without Borders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/opinion/trump-global-populism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The forces that brought the former president to power are exerting pressure all over the world.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Turning America Into a 'Democracy With Asterisks']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/opinion/us-democracy-republicans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget Trump for a minute. The real action is taking place across the country in state capitols, mostly out of view.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Wokeness 'Kryponite for Democrats'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/opinion/democrats-republicans-wokeness-cancel-culture.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans sure seem to think so. They are not alone.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Woke Capitalism' a Mixed Blessing for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/opinion/woke-capitalism-democratic-party-us.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The internal contradictions of woke capitalism are a mixed blessing for the Democratic Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Anxious About 2022 - and 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/opinion/democratic-voters-anxieties.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fretting starts with the party's declining share of the Hispanic vote, but it doesn't end there.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Long Can Democracy Survive QAnon &amp; Its Allies?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/opinion/democracy-qanon.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politicians and political scientists wonder if there are electoral reforms that might blunt the lunacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rise of 'Political Sectarianism' Putting Us All in Danger]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/trump-political-sectarianism.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The turbulence that followed the Nov. 3 election has roiled American politics, demonstrating an ominous vulnerability in our political system.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Resentment That Never Sleeps]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/opinion/trump-social-status-resentment.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rising anxiety over declining social status tells us a lot about how we got here and where we're going.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Struggling With Internal Contradictions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/opinion/biden-democrats-moderate-progressive.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An intense battle between moderates and progressives has already spilled into public view.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Not Out of the Woods]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/opinion/biden-trump-presidential-election.html?action=clichttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/opinion/biden-trump-presidential-election.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepagek&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Edsall</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unanticipated electoral developments are affecting both presidential campaigns in surprising ways.]]></description>
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