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<title><![CDATA[Ted Van Dyk - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14912.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ted Van Dyk]]></description><category domain="14912">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are a Long Way From Winning Again]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Having lost the 2024 presidential election decisively, and without control of either house of Congress, Democrats lack a credible alternative vision to present to American voters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unfortunate for Democrats That Sen. Brown Lost and Schiff Won]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-need-a-recovery-plan-f017b843?st=k9skET</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country rebuked the party and its leaders. As in 1980, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time to learn how to govern again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jan. 6 Hearing Disappoints This Democrat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/jan-6-hearing-disappoints-this-democrat-partisan-cheney-thompson-investigation-security-trump-11655038308?st=oegxpbu1sfszdcl&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country needs an objective accounting of the Capitol riot, not a partisan one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats May Blow It in 2020]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In their fever to dispense with President Trump immediately, Democrats are losing sight of what Marxists called the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'objective conditions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in the country and the fundamentals of presidential politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Haven't Turned Back From 1968]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is polarized in many ways, but one of the most significant is between generations in the Democratic Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Biggest Problem Is Cultural]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six months into the Trump presidency, congressional Democrats have begun to frame an alternative agenda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anti-Trump Democrats Invite Chaos]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'A jackass can kick down a barn,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said the legendary Speaker Sam Rayburn.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fellow Dems, Your Effort to Destroy the President Is Abnormal]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'How Can We Get Rid of Trump?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' asks one headline. You can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'except by defeating him in 2020.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Political Pulse of a Blue-State Town]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The remaining members of our Bellingham High School class of 1951 convened here recently, along with adjacent classes. It was evident that our generational attitudes, formed while we grew up during the Great Depression and World War II, had changed little'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'although our hometown had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Democratic Party Can Save Itself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/the-democratic-party-how-it-can-save-itself/282011/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Between 1968, when Lyndon Johnson left the White House, and the end of the century, the nation elected only two Democratic presidents. Both were Southern populists who had been careful to differentiate themselves from Great Society and their liberal predecessors. That all changed in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Unrecognizable Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324128504578344611522010132.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a lifelong Democrat, I have a mental picture these days of my president, smiling broadly, at the wheel of a speeding convertible. His passengers are Democratic elected officials and candidates. Ahead of them, concealed by a bend in the road, is a concrete barrier.They didn't have to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Should 'Reset' His Presidency]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124779697143755743.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ted Van Dyk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Time out, Mr. President.As we approach the August congressional recess, it's clear that our economic distress is deeper than we thought, and thus your health-care and energy initiatives are in danger of stalling out. You could use a reset button for domestic policy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Hold JFK &amp; FDR Democrats?]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121944770970665183.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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