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<title><![CDATA[Jeff Greenfield - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15648.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jeff Greenfield]]></description><category domain="15648">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[It Was Donald Trump's Night - In the Worst Possible Way]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/11/trump-harris-debate-3-takeaways-analysis-00178484</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pre-debate chatter was almost unanimous: Voters know pretty much everything they need to about Donald Trump, but they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re still wondering about Kamala Harris and her presidential plans. For Democrats who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' grimaced at recent polls, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a potential silver lining '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Campus Chaos Should Give Democrats PTSD]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/02/why-campus-chaos-should-give-democrats-ptsd-00155537</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York City police, dressed in riot gear, descending on Columbia University, breaking up protests and arresting college students. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard not to have flashbacks to 1968.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[60 Years After JFK&rsquo;s Death: What Might Have Been]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/60-years-after-jfk-s-death-what-might-have-been/ar-AA1klfKA?cvid=93f3fe4f0bdd458f966d9dbf1b6e0776&amp;ei=6</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What follows is an effort to peer through six decades of history and mythologizing to offer what we know about President John F. Kennedy and what we can surmise about what might have happened had he lived.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1948 Election Almost Threw U.S. Democracy Into Disarray]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/24/closest-calls-presidential-upset-1948-00114521</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 1948 presidential election almost became a constitutional crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Are Targeting Kamala Harris. Will It Work?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/09/republicans-target-kamala-harris-election-2024-00095961</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History suggests going after the vice president is ineffective. But this time might be different.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Fetterman Should Know About Thomas Eagleton]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/17/john-fetterman-thomas-eagleton-depression-00083429</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, the politics of depression upended a career. The times have changed, but Fetterman's path won't be easy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Missed Opportunity to Wrestle With Fox News]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/13/joe-biden-fox-news-missed-opportunity-00082560</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Talking to the other side is a lost art in politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Warning to the Media About the Next Presidential Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/25/the-wildly-misleading-2024-speculation-is-about-to-begin-00079104</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you set out on a road trip, would you trust your GPS to guide you to your destination if you had wound up on dead ends the last half-dozen times you used it? Would you follow the investment advice of an expert who had cost you a serious chunk of your retirement time after time?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCarthy Getting Devoured by GOP Hostage-Takers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/04/kevin-mccarthy-gop-vote-00076263</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like most of you, I was alternately entertained and horrified by the shambolic display of Republican chaos at the opening of Congress. Entertained because it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a treat to see pomp and circumstance enter the arena with its collective pants around its ankles; horrified by the prospect...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iowa and New Hampshire Are Getting the Boot. So What?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/06/democrats-2024-primary-schedule-iowa-new-hampshire-00072221</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the president and DNC rules committee have their way, a political calendar half a century old will be a thing of the past. Iowa, whose caucuses begin the actual voting, will be wiped out. (In fact, if Biden has his way, there will be no caucuses at all.) New Hampshire, whose snows...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Poor Kids Just Don't Matter in American Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/28/poor-kids-just-dont-matter-in-american-politics-00059018</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The demise of the expanded Child Tax Credit is a sad '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and familiar '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' tale.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liz Cheney's Non-Concession Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/16/liz-cheney-concession-speech-00052319</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fierce Trump critic made clear she has no plans to leave the stage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden, Harris and Democrats' 2024 Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/09/democrats-2024-dilemma-00038105</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden is old, and Kamala Harris has struggled. But the search for another candidate could fatally divide the party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Orwell Diagnosed Dems' Culture War Problem Decades Ago]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/19/orwell-teach-democrats-working-class-00025047</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The famed English writer warned that cranks on the left were turning off ordinary voters, even as broad support existed for progressive policies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[History Shows Dems' Midterm Doom Isn't Preordained]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/07/history-democrats-midterms-disaster-biden-trouble-00023175</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's party doesn't always suffer a thumping. But Biden's still in trouble.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Speeches in Biden's State of the Union]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/01/biden-state-of-the-union-00013088</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president was on the offensive when vowing to confront Putin '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and on the backfoot when touting his domestic agenda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin's Aggression Hurts Because We'd Come So Far]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/27/existential-conflict-cold-war-history-00012069</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The threat of existential conflict returns long after we thought it had faded away.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Losing Culture War, Messaging Shift Won't Help]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/23/democrats-losing-culture-war-messaging-shift-00011091</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party must point to deeds, not words, to show they understand voters' concerns.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are the 'Right' Qualifications for Court? None]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/08/right-qualifications-supreme-court-justices-none-experience-00006287</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The obsession with a certain kind of judicial experience is harming the court's understanding of the real world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Inflation Could Take Down Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/16/joe-bidens-empty-inflation-toolbox-522552</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Presidents have little power to bring down rising prices. History shows the public doesn't care.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Virginia Buries an Enduring Political Myth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/01/virginia-enduring-political-myth-517716</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The startling strength of a relative unknown Republican in the governor's race is proving that, in fact, all politics isn't local.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils of Political Foot-in-Mouth Disease]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/16/political-gaffes-mcauliffe-history-516106</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Terry McAuliffe is under fire for an alleged gaffe. He's got plenty of company.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Roots of Democratic Disarray]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/25/biden-agenda-democrats-congress-514263</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party never actually agreed on an agenda, even as Biden moved aggressively with the slimmest of margins in Congress.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newsom &amp; the Revenge of California's 'Anger' Lobby]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/13/gavin-newsom-and-the-revenge-of-californias-anger-lobby-510881</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The strange story of how progressive reforms put power in the hands of the state's most aggrieved voters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Be So Sure a Court Backlash Will Boost Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/02/abortion-supreme-court-backlash-democrats-509241</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most Americans support abortion rights. But an attack on Roe v. Wade may not bring a surge of voters to the polls.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Emptiness of Democrats' Big Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/24/the-emptiness-of-democrats-big-deal-506817</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pelosi has only temporarily papered over the party's fractures.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Aren't Getting More Done]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/11/democrats-trapped-republicans-bend-rules-498854</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They have a majority coalition. They control the White House. But the Democrats are trapped in delusions of rewriting the rules, while the GOP figures out ways to bend them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A GOP Civil War? Don't Bet On It.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/12/gop-civil-war-dont-bet-on-it-487192</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've heard that narrative before. The Democrats believe it at their peril.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walter Mondale: The Last Old-School Democrat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/20/vice-president-walter-mondale-obituary-1984-democratic-campaign-483448</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His 1984 campaign was a political obituary for a party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McConnell vs. Trump: Why the GOP Is Right to Worry]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/13/mcconnell-trump-republican-party-spat-481222</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Greenfield</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the history of these spats, it makes sense that Republicans are still kneeling to an out-of-power president.]]></description>
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