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<title><![CDATA[Michael Kazin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17815.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Kazin]]></description><category domain="17815">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Crisis Isn't Over]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/23/biden-democrats-history-opportunity-00170455</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s disastrous debate on June 27, the Democratic Party has been in crisis, and his withdrawal from the race does not end that crisis. But it does offer an opportunity.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Two American Lefts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-two-american-lefts</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the Great Recession, the American left has grown both in numbers and political influence. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a lifelong socialist, ran two competitive races for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Progressive Caucus in Congress has ballooned to over a hundred...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Save His Presidency, Biden Must Tell the Truth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/opinion/biden-afghanistan-johnson.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He may not be able to save his ambitious legislative agenda unless he understands this crucial lesson from the past.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Origins of America's Enduring Divisions]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/151130/these-truths-book-review-jill-lepore-origins-americas-enduring-divisions</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Jill Lepore, the United States has always been a nation caught between its sunny ideals and its darker realities.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Never-Ending Culture War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/opinion/sunday/chicago-protests-1968-culture-war.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The issues that drove protesters to Chicago in 1968 are still motivating our partisan divide, 50 years later.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Great Society Worked]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/146922/realistic-ambitions</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should America Have Entered World War I?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/opinion/should-america-have-entered-world-war-i.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One hundred years ago today, Congress voted to enter what was then the largest and bloodiest war in history. Four days earlier, President Woodrow Wilson had sought to unite a sharply divided populace with a stirring claim that the nation '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'is privileged to spend her blood and her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prophet and Loss: Does Karl Marx Still Matter?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/136339/prophet-loss</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does Karl Marx still matter? It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a question most readers of a new biography of Marx would ask'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'even if they are already steeped in the contentious scholarship about (or the perpetual ideological skirmishes within) the radical left. What relevance can his life and work have in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Immigration Issue Can Ensure Dem Dominance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/how-trump-can-ensure-democratic-dominance-for-generations-213102</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new policies were effective: Over 18 million people migrated to the U.S. between 1880 and 1920. From 1930 to 1960, during the new era of highly restricted immigration, only four million made the trip.But the political backlash from that dramatic shift in demographics was fierce....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sherrod Brown Should Challenge Hillary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120351/sherrod-brown-president-2016-he-should-challenge-hillary-clinton</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the risk of seeming ridiculous, I think Sherrod Brown should run for president. I know that, barring a debilitating health problem or a horrible scandal, Hillary Clinton is likely to capture the Democratic nomination. I realize too that Brown, the senior senator from Ohio, has never...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Problem: Political ADD]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119144/obamas-political-add-president-cant-focus-single-issue</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why has Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'one of the most eloquent and thoughtful of recent presidents'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'become such a terrible politician? Midway through his sixth year in office, his ineptitude is pretty clear. He frustrated and demobilized the huge base he built during his campaigns and, unless the polls...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop the Revisionism: LBJ Was No Liberal Hero]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117346/lbj-should-not-be-celebrated-liberal-hero</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From 1964 to 1968, close to 34,000 Americans died in South Vietnam. We will never know how many Vietnamese women, men, and children perished during those years, but the total, according to most estimates, was at least one million. Among the dead were tens of thousands of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rand Paul Doesn't Stand a Chance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117147/rand-paul-doesnt-stand-chance-libertarians-and-republican-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Libertarianism is suddenly in fashion. Denouncing the NSA, Rand Paul draws cheers both from young leftists in Berkeley and young conservatives in D.C.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and narrowly leads in early polls for the 2016 presidential nomination. The Koch brothers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'who once bankrolled the Libertarian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Lessons for the Tea Party Movement]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/12/opinion/kazin-tea-party/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(CNN) -- If we allow this awful measure to stand, predicted the conservative spokesman, "behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day...we will wake to find that we have socialism [and] we are going to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Aren't Millennials Protesting the Shutdown?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114921/new-left-why-isnt-it-protesting-shutdown</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is a new, young left really on the rise? A few weeks ago, Peter Beinart wrote a long online essay which argued strongly in the affirmative. It drew a lot of attention'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'20,000 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Likes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and almost 5,000 tweets, at last count. And it made a lot of the progressives who read it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Are You Calling a Liberal?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112339</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Contrary to what everyone who loved - or hated - his inaugural address seems to think, President Obama has yet to demonstrate that he is determined to launch a new liberal era.The big speech did gesture in that direction. Obama declared, in the style of FDR, that "our country cannot...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We'll All Miss Unions When They're Gone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111100/well-all-miss-unions-when-theyre-gone</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unionists have never enjoyed true security in America. During the early nineteenth century, they got hauled into court for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'conspiring to restrain trade.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' In the heyday of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, they got accused of fomenting violence and revolution. During the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Businessmen Are Not Elected President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/105088/why-businessmen-dont-get-elected-president</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Mitt Romney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s association with Bain Capital ends up sinking his presidential campaign, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unlikely to appreciate the irony. But, if he needs consolation, he might consider seeking solace in American history. The fact is that no successful businessman has ever been a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Dems Must Find a Moral Argument]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/103104/obama-populist-symposium-income-inequality-democrat-election-second-term</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Editors'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' note: No Democratic president has won in recent decades on a platform of economic populism. But with the rhetoric of the 99 percent still in the air, and a proposal for a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Fair Share Tax'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' at the center of his current platform, it seems President Obama might be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crony Capitalism Is American as Apple Pie]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/101446/conservative-republican-business-capitalism-influence</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives are supposed to cherish tradition, to draw on customs and policies which worked well in the past to guide what office-holders ought to do in the future. So it is ironic, if not hypocritical, that they constantly peddle a notion about the separation of business and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Gingrich vs. Obama Would Be Good for America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/98222/newt-gingrich-debate-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I sincerely hope Newt Gingrich wins the Republican nomination for president: It could bring a healthy candor to our politics and end up boosting the fortunes of liberalism as well. Now, I realize the former Speaker may not be able to convert his current polling spurt into triumph over...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Love of States' Rights Is Ridiculous]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/95119/gop-states-rights-bachmann-perry-romney-paul</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever their differences, the leading Republican candidates all swear that they love states'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' rights. If elected president, Rick Perry vows to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'try to make Washington as inconsequential as I can.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Mitt Romney declares his faith in the Constitution, which, he says,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Not Alone: Presidents End Up Unpopular]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/93961/failed-presidents-obama-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Washington, on both left and right, a new piece of conventional wisdom is hardening into place: Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency is slowly collapsing under the burdens of a bad economy, a rudderless foreign policy, and confusion about how the man who once twinkled with charisma wants to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: Man Without a Plan?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/not-even-past/91367/obama-presidency-roosevelt-economy-election-progressives</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember when liberals believed and conservatives feared that Barack Obama might become another Franklin D. Roosevelt? On its cover, Time depicted the president-elect smiling from the driver'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s seat of a 1930s roadster, cigarette holder pointing toward the welcoming sky. That...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Mobilize Indies, We Need Stronger Unions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/critics/79361/mobilizing-independent-voters-unions</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Judis has always been a shrewd reader of election returns. In '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve Got Them All Wrong, Mr. President,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' his deconstruction of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'independent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' voters makes clear how meaningless it is for President Obama or anyone else to credit such a huge clump of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Branding Isn't the Answer for Progressives]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/critics/78393/history-progressives-brand-fallacy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Midway through her recent TNR article '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Building the Progressive Brand,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Sara Robinson makes one essential point: Progressives, she writes, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'have always been at our best when we speak from a place of strong moral authority, rooted deeply in a daring vision of the kind of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Populism Not Enough for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/critics/77143/populism-not-enough-barack-obama-unpopular</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kazin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am usually the last person to minimize the importance of populist talk in American politics. Back in the 1990s, I wrote a book, The Populist Persuasion: An American History, arguing that leaders and movements that have credibly portrayed themselves as champions of the moral,...]]></description>
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