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<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Chait - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14850.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Chait]]></description><category domain="14850">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump&rsquo;s Attacks on the Media Are Self-Defeating]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/7KmNi</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is presiding over a failing presidency and lashing out at the news media'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'most recently by banning CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House. There might seem to be a connection between these two things, but the causal link is not that Trump is punishing the press...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Meant It When He Said He Was Taking the Oil]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/gPZ9L</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Venezuela, he is finally fulfilling a lifelong scheme.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newsom's Record Would Be a Problem If He Runs in '28]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/gavin-newsom-s-record-is-a-problem/ar-AA1UJQbG</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom is currently'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the lead for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. Newsom'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' early advantage'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is especially impressive for the way that it puts him well ahead of candidates with better name recognition, including Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg. Every...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sen. Warren's Abundant Mistakes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/elizabeth-warren-s-abundant-mistakes/ar-AA1Uh3bX</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has two competing plans to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'pick up the broken pieces from the 2024 election,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' claimed Elizabeth Warren, in a widely touted speech she delivered Monday at the National Press Club. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'One vision says that we should shape our agenda and temper our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Leftists So Pessimistic About School Reform?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-are-leftists-so-pessimistic-about-school-reform/ar-AA1RXEmW</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every once in a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' while, a state or city discovers a new and better way to educate poor children. Inevitably, a group of skeptics arises to insist that this new way doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t work, that even attempting to shrink the gap between rich and poor students is a fool'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s errand.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aol.com/news/senate-democrats-just-made-huge-034300475.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mamdani Won Despite His Radicalism, Not Because of It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-the-left-still-doesnt-get-about-winning/ar-AA1Q0VjO</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani is an extraordinary political story: a generational political talent, an out-of-nowhere success, and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'measured by the number of citizens he will soon govern'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the most powerful elected democratic socialist in American history.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Progressives Keep Getting Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/progressives-keep-getting-wrong-100000843.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has absorbed enough oppo research to kill half a dozen healthy candidacies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/democrats-still-have-no-idea-what-went-wrong/ar-AA1NWddB</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a recent panel of progressive activists analyzing what went wrong in the 2024 election, the author, activist, and failed political candidate Qasim Rashid spoke with confidence about the way forward for the Democratic Party. The problem, he insisted, was not that Democrats had strayed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Epstein Letter Is Real, and It&rsquo;s Bad]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-epstein-letter-is-real-and-it-s-bad/ar-AA1M8TEi?cvid=92f29d0c8e6046ec9ae6bde0d7b4e06e&amp;ei=7</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Wall Street Journal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reported'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' two months ago that Donald Trump had written a suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein in celebration of the notorious child abuser'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 50th birthday, in 2003, the administration had a choice of available responses. The strategy it went with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Shoots the Messenger]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/donald-trump-shoots-the-messenger/ar-AA1JKFw4?cvid=59ae1f690b534e7c9eeb498fe8518d91&amp;ei=13</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s authoritarian moves come in two flavors. The first is devious plans that help him amass power (say, turning the Departments of Justice and Defense over to lackeys, or using regulatory threats to bully media owners into favorable coverage). The second...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Didn&rsquo;t Have To Do This]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/they-didn-t-have-to-do-this/ar-AA1HMwDG?cvid=a2789021cc1043eba22cbe71dcbecc72&amp;ei=9</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In their heedless rush'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to enact a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' deficit-exploding tax bill'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' so massive that they barely understand it, Senate Republicans call to mind a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' scene'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Sopranos. A group of young aspiring gangsters decides to stick up a Mafia card game in hopes of gaining the mobsters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Democratic Civil War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/coming-democratic-civil-war-130000832.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A civil war has broken out among the Democratic wonks. The casus belli is a new set of ideas known as the abundance agenda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Called Trump&rsquo;s Bluff]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/china-called-trump-s-bluff/ar-AA1ECQTk?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Donald Trump launched his trade war on the world, he issued a stern'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' warning: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Do not retaliate and you will be rewarded.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' China ignored the warning. It was rewarded anyway. This morning, Trump largely suspended his trade war in return for nothing but promises...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Running Economic Development in Reverse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-is-running-economic-development-in-reverse/ar-AA1CUn2C</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The trouble is that the long-term economic program is even worse than the short-term one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Says the Corrupt Part Out Loud]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-says-the-corrupt-part-out-loud/ar-AA1yQNC5?cvid=5a17daa13ac04ee8e494113eea619536&amp;ei=10</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid the flurry of changes to the face of American government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the president may or may not have the right to unilaterally eliminate agencies; engaging in insurrection has been decriminalized while prosecuting it has become grounds for termination; wars of conquest are now on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats Show Why They Lost]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-democrats-show-why-they-lost/ar-AA1yi0a1?cvid=5d3f44c31ca149d18016a1115d551e4e&amp;ei=8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking to the Democratic National Committee, which met to select its new leadership this weekend, the outgoing chair, Jaime Harrison, attempted to explain a point about its rules concerning gender balance for its vice-chair race. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The rules specify that when we have a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Trump's Second Term Already Peaked?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/the-hollowness-of-trump-s-shock-and-awe/ar-AA1xFExs?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since Donald Trump emerged as a credible threat to return to the White House, the guardrails that seemed to restrain him in his first term'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'political, legal, psychic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'have collapsed with astonishing speed. His nominees are sailing through their confirmation hearings,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Liberal America Is Coming to Its Senses]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/cancel-culture-is-dead/ar-AA1w9HUU</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A decade ago, cultural norms in elite American institutions took a sharply illiberal turn. Professors would get disciplined, journalists fired, ordinary people harassed by social-media mobs, over some decontextualized phrase or weaponized misunderstanding.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bizarre Normalcy of Trump 2.0]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/the-bizarre-normalcy-of-trump-2-0/ar-AA1vydUt</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Avery strange disjuncture has opened up in Washington between the serene mood and the alarming developments that are under way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Don't Have To Completely Abandon Trans Rights]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/moderation-is-not-the-same-thing-as-surrender/ar-AA1uRaKw?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before this month'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s elections, when Democratic candidates were being attacked for letting transgender athletes compete in girls'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' sports, trans-rights activists and their allies had a confident answer: They had nothing to fear, because anti-trans themes were a consistent loser...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump&rsquo;s Most Dangerous Cabinet Pick]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/donald-trump-s-most-dangerous-cabinet-pick/ar-AA1uvONi?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a few hours, Pete Hegseth'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nomination as secretary of defense was the most disturbing act of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential transition. Surely the Senate wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t confirm an angry Fox News talking head with no serious managerial experience, best known for publicly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Rejected the Biden-Harris Administration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/americans-didn-t-embrace-trump-they-rejected-the-biden-harris-administration/ar-AA1tBOe1?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That half this country could willingly restore'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to a position of power is a sickening thought. For most liberals, moderates, or people who closely follow news sources not controlled by the Republican Party, it is almost unfathomable.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Used To Run on Education. What Happened?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-used-to-run-on-education-what-happened/ar-AA1tc43c</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a scene in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The War Room, the 1993 documentary about the Clinton campaign, that is replayed in the new CNN documentary about James Carville. George Stephanopoulos, flush with victory, starts telling the staff and volunteers crowded around him about the good things that will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Harris' Overreach Gave Trump His Favorite Ad]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/how-progressive-overreach-gave-trump-his-favorite-attack-ad/ar-AA1sqWai</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you have watched a sporting event in the last month, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve probably been bombarded with Trump ads lambasting Kamala Harris for having endorsed free gender-transition surgery for prisoners and immigration detainees. The dead hand of her 2019 campaign continues to haunt her.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for 2024 Indecision Is Feeble]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-case-for-2024-indecision-is-feeble/ar-AA1qWFrP?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the face of the extraordinary threat to the system posed by a second Trump term, normal political disagreements over budgets, social policy, and the like simply don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t register.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mark Robinson and the Republican Wackjob Problem]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday afternoon, CNN reported that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' North Carolina Republican Governor candidate Mark Robinson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' frequented a porn site where he called himself a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Black Nazi,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said he wished slavery was still legal, heaped abuse on Martin Luther King, and expressed several controversial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Threatens Democracy. Saying So Is Not Incitement]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That was true before an'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' assassination attempt was foiled at his golf course'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Sunday, and it remains true after.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Political violence in general, and assassinating presidential candidates specifically, also poses risks to democracy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kamala Harris Should Cut Joe Biden Loose]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kamala Harris is navigating a tricky dilemma, according to the New York Times. She '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'will try to promote herself as a change candidate without criticizing President Biden.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bowman Blew Up His Own Coalition]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Chait</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He wants to be an AIPAC martyr, but this was a political suicide attempt.]]></description>
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