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<title><![CDATA[Sean Wilentz - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16213.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sean Wilentz]]></description><category domain="16213">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Sedition of Donald Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before Donald Trump got himself infected with the coronavirus, he had firmly secured his place as the worst president in American history. Now, after mocking Joe Biden at their first debate for mask wearing, Trump has proved to be a reckless superspreader, risking the lives of donors at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Disgrace of Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-george-floyd-protests-lafayette-square-sean-wilentz-1014276/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Was the battle of Lafayette Square the beginning of the end for his presidency?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 1619 Project: A Matter of Facts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/1619-project-new-york-times-wilentz/605152/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times' 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[They Were Bad. Trump May Be Worse.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/sunday/trump-bad-presidents-history.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best way to evaluate President Trump's first year in office is to compare him not with the great presidents but with the worst.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How a Clinton Presidency Could Transform America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/how-a-hillary-clinton-presidency-could-transform-america-w433768</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The political spectacle of the past year has turned the 2016 election into a chasm with profound historical significance. By nominating Donald Trump, the Republican Party has become the vehicle for an authoritarian, nativist nationalism that until now lurked at the fringes of modern...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the 2016 Election Will Be So Pivotal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-2016-election-will-be-one-of-the-most-pivotal-moments-of-our-time-20151203</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than 150 years ago, in 1858, as the national crisis over slavery heightened, Abraham Lincoln famously remarked that "a house divided against itself cannot stand," and that the "crisis" would be "reached and passed" only when the house divided would "become all one thing or all the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, Slavery Was Not a National Institution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/opinion/constitutionally-slavery-is-no-national-institution.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Civil War began over a simple question: Did the Constitution of the United States recognize slavery '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' property in humans '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' in national law? Southern slaveholders, inspired by Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, charged that it did and that the Constitution was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Extremist Tea Partiers Now Define the GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/romney-captive-article-1.1193384</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2012 presidential campaign may seem like it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s all about the economy, but it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s really being driven by the chief political development of the last 30 years: the Republican Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s movement further to the ideological right.Mitt Romney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attempts to win over his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bill Clinton Saved Liberalism from Itself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/95615/clinton-twenty-years-later</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[October 3rd marks the twentieth anniversary of Bill Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s announcement of his candidacy for the presidency. The distance of time permits some perspective on what Clinton was attempting to do when he set out on his quest.Since the end of World War II, every Democrat who has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Grip of Paranoid Politics Loosen?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/87776/osama-bin-laden-death-obama-paranoid-beck-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What a difference a day makes. On Saturday, American politics was mired in a loopy but degrading controversy over President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s birth certificate, hyped in the latest campaign of divisive paranoia by Fox News, would-be Republican presidential candidate, the real-estate mogul and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Movement Politics &amp; the Midterms]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/79004/you-said-you-wanted-revolution-midterm-elections-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than candidates are defeated in elections. So are ideas. The Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' heavy losses in the midterm elections may now force a reassessment and overhaul of the Barack Obama political experiment. Whether the president has the dexterity and fortitude to navigate through the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Needs to Fire His Staff]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-24/obama-fire-your-staff/?cid=bs:archive4</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message:																											Pete Souza / The White House																		The president needs to learn an important lesson, says historian Sean Wilentz: Sometimes the most loyal staffers are the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Can Learn Like Kennedy or Fail Like Carter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/01/17/2010-01-17_wilentz_obamas_fateful_choice.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only a year ago, the buzzword about Barack Obama was "transformational."  Americans had supposedly elected another Lincoln to the White House; no, another FDR, or maybe a liberal Reagan. Nobody's talking that way anymore. Obama's actual achievements so far have been piecemeal at best.He...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Lincoln Was - And Wasn't]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=2634954a-b287-480e-9fbd-8a4663174031</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Must Add Substance to His Style]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/154911</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the Age of Reagan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e8702e42-dc29-48ea-a4cf-a5ab19e321fd</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Wilentz</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[If System Made Sense, Clinton Would Be Far Ahead]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/04/07/hillary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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