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<title><![CDATA[Frank Bruni - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15088.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Frank Bruni]]></description><category domain="15088">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Good News for Democrats, But These Aren't Normal Times]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kamala Harris Is Serious. Donald Trump Is Not]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/opinion/kamala-harris-trump-debate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before this week's presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris holed up. Hunkered down. Studied. Practiced. Her advisers made no secret]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Should Be Very Scared of Debating Harris]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/08/29/trump-should-be-scared-very-scared-of-debating-kamala-harris/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's easy to find examples of Vice President Kamala Harris answering questions in a vacuous, speciously thoughtful manner that borders]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump, Prince of Self-Pity]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/08/08/donald-trump-prince-of-self-pity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The size of the crowd at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Atlanta last month rivaled the turnout]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Apparently No Accountability - Ever - for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/04/there-is-apparently-no-accountability-ever-for-donald-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We tell children '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or at least we used to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that actions have consequences. What goes around comes around.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Absolute Worst Argument for Why Trump Won't Win]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/06/06/the-absolute-worst-argument-for-why-trump-wont-win/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm routinely gobsmacked by how many people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' including influential Democrats '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' tell me that they can't imagine a victory]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Donald Trump Met Hannibal Lecter]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/05/16/when-donald-trump-met-hannibal-lecter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How many of your acquaintances have been eaten by an immigrant who crossed the U.S. border illegally? How many such cases have you read or heard about?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For the Sake of Democracy, Celebrate Mike Johnson]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/25/for-the-sake-of-democracy-celebrate-mike-johnson/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've seen movies aplenty in which a deeply flawed protagonist, someone we'd pretty much given up hope on, has a]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Fleeing Stench of a Rotten Congress]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/11/republicans-are-fleeing-the-stench-of-a-rotten-congress/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Donald Trump, House Republicans do a convincing pantomime of love. Many of them chirpily parrot his lies. Most of them merrily launder his misdeeds. They grovel for his favor, gush about getting his endorsement and speak and vote in line with his desires.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Overlooked Truths About Biden's Age]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/03/28/the-overlooked-truths-about-bidens-age/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In terms of optics and in terms of energy, I wish President Biden were younger. There's no point in pretending]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Can Win Anywhere and Everywhere]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Enterprising Democratic governors have had success where it's by no means guaranteed. This is how they did it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Victorious, Censorious, Malicious Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/01/25/the-victorious-censorious-malicious-donald-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About an hour and a half after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the Republican primary in New Hampshire, he appeared onstage at a victory rally in Nashua, N.H., to bask in his accomplishment and bash lesser mortals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's 'Nasty' New Religion]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/01/18/the-g-o-p-s-nasty-new-religion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've spent the past few days deconstructing what happened at the Iowa caucuses. I'm still stuck on what happened before:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Final Battle Has Begun]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/01/02/trumps-final-battle-has-begun/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like many other Americans struggling to find scraps of calm and slivers of hope in this anxious era, I resolved]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Ron DeSantis' Campaign Is Rotting]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/12/14/the-real-reason-ron-desantiss-campaign-is-rotting/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past two weeks, I've been awash in condolences. Friends tell me how deeply sorry for me they feel.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not the Economy. It's the Fascism]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/30/its-not-the-economy-its-the-fascism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To spend more than a little time toggling between news sites of different bents is to notice a fierce debate]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is on Trial &amp; Biden Is Old. Will Anything Else Matter?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/09/07/biden-is-old-and-trump-is-on-trial-will-anything-else-matter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thirty-six years in the Senate, eight as vice president, nearly three in the White House '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' President Joe Biden has]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real, Hidden Truth About College Admissions]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/RyGXQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our political leaders may or may not be worthy of emulation, but there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no doubt that they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re successes in the strictest sense, having summited the professional peaks that they intended to scale. Which colleges set them on their ascents?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RFK Jr. Is Where Paranoia Meets Legacy Admissions]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/20/robert-f-kennedy-jr-is-where-paranoia-meets-legacy-admissions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It feels dangerous to write about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: In the lag time between when I put the finishing]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, It's OK To Talk About Hunter Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/13/democrats-its-ok-to-talk-about-hunter-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you travel in predominantly Democratic circles and want to have a really trying day, write or publicly say something]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Want Trump? They're Out of Their Minds]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/01/democrats-want-trump-theyre-out-of-their-minds-2/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did we learn nothing from 2016? That, you may recall, was when Donald Trump's emergence as the Republican presidential nominee]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MTG and the Thick, Cracked Goggles of Grievance]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/20/marjorie-taylor-greene-and-the-thick-cracked-goggles-of-grievance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t keep up with Marjorie Taylor Greene'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tweets, having decided long ago that there were more pleasant and constructive uses of time, like lighting fire to my eyelashes. But I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m rethinking that judgment now. M.T.G. really does have something to say '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or, rather,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Only One College Ranking List That Matters]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/27/theres-only-one-college-ranking-list-that-matters/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Within a few months of joining the faculty at Duke University in 2021, I could spot them: the high school seniors, juniors and even sophomores on their pilgrimages to our verdant and coveted wonderland, with its Gothic Revival spires, ecstatic basketball fans and acceptance rate of 6...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Queen of Having It Both Ways]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/02/07/sarah-huckabee-sanders-the-queen-of-having-it-both-ways/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I keep hearing and reading that many Republican leaders want to move on from Donald Trump. I can't imagine why.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Herschel Walker May Win]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/16/why-herschel-walker-may-win/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Herschel Walker did himself significant good in Friday night's debate in Georgia. That may be hard to recognize and even]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz, I'm Sorry]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/opinion/frank-bruni-final-times-column.html?campaign_id=39&amp;emc=edit_ty_20210617&amp;instance_id=33226&amp;nl=opinion-today&amp;regi_id=13689333&amp;segment_id=60950&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=663c23553dd94cec988710bdf78d3c32</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I leave this job after 10 years, I wish I'd handled many columns better.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is Starving for Attention]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/opinion/sunday/donald-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A glutton for attention is yanked away from the buffet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Owe Anthony Fauci Gratitude, Not Grief]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/opinion/sunday/anthony-fauci.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The phrases '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'public servant'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'public service'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' are exhausted to the point of meaninglessness. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re tics. They roll off politicians'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' tongues as readily as requests for money, suggesting that adulation and power aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the more potent draws to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Have Found Their Cruel New Culture War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opinion/sunday/transgender-rights-republicans-arkansas.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A return to the nuclear deal is the first step out of the morass.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop It With 'Gun Control.' Enough Already]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/opinion/sunday/gun-control-safety.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frank Bruni</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Language matters. This language doesn't help.]]></description>
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