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<title><![CDATA[Erick Erickson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23270.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]></description><category domain="23270">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Only One Revolution Ended in Liberty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/10/only_one_revolution_ended_in_liberty_154322.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two hundred and fifty years ago, men in powdered hair and knee breeches did what no colony had ever done successfully. They broke away from the most powerful empire on earth. They were not bloodthirsty radicals. They had petitioned again and again to remain loyal subjects of the Crown....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Press vs. America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/27/the_press_vs_america_153889.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alysa Liu is an American figure skater whose family fled China and faced harassment and persecution by Chinese authorities. She won gold. You might have missed it. The American press corps chose, instead, to praise Eileen Gu, an American skier with family ties to the Chinese communist...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Equal, Fair and Farce]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/equal_fair_and_farce_153860.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie "Necessary Roughness" in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Immigration Fairy Tales]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/immigration_fairy_tales_153778.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, federal border patrol agents shot and killed progressive protestor Alex Pretti in Minnesota. After his death, a video surfaced from a week earlier where Pretti had spat on border patrol agents and violently kicked an agent's car.
Some on the right are, through implication,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[9 Thoughts on the Latest ICE Shooting in Minnesota]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I don't think protestors should attempt to interfere with immigration agents.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Status Quo vs. The Alternative]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/23/the_status_quo_vs_the_alternative_153748.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last two weeks have been, like the preceding weeks, nuts. The president insisted the United States must own Greenland and he would not rule out military force, if necessary, to take the island. He imposed tariffs on the NATO allies who oppose his territorial lust. Then he walked it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Goal Posts Keep Shifting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/the_goal_posts_keep_shifting_153722.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Renee Good should be alive. The activist, killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, met her end in tragedy. What has happened since, predictably, saw people rush to their tribal corners. ICE "murdered" Good. Good was the villain. Your politics positioned your stance....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Arrive at My Fear]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/26/we_arrive_at_my_fear_153332.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the left that their opponents are evil, and words are violence. A permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets that the right must be stopped to save democracy. An exculpatory structure formed on CNN and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Turning Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/a_turning_point_153276.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA["You have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children ... I'm trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry," Charlie Kirk said last week. Now he is dead,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CNN Anchors and Fact Checkers Lied To Their Viewers]]></title>
							<link>https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/mark-thompson-you-have-a-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mark Thompson, the CEO of CNN, has a serious problem that came into sharp view yesterday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Road to Bankruptcy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/23/the_road_to_bankruptcy_152833.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act has passed the House of Representatives. There were times it looked like it would die. But, in the end, all but two Republicans voted for it. It passed by just a single vote. The vote went so late into the early morning hours that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Distrust and Accountability]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/16/distrust_and_accountability_152800.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CNN's Kasie Hunt interviewed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer the other day. She confronted him about allegations of a meeting with former President Joe Biden that should have raised alarms about Biden's fitness for office. "We're moving forward," Schumer replied. He would not answer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Greatest Event in Human History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/18/the_greatest_event_in_human_history_152674.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Eighty and six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong," said Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in A.D. 156 before climbing onto a pyre where Roman authorities would burn him to death. Eyewitnesses reported the local authorities respected Polycarp and begged him to recant his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Grocery Prices Will Go Up]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/11/grocery_prices_will_go_up_152640.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We don't grow much coffee within the United States. Only Hawaii and Puerto Rico are really capable of it and even if we started up tomorrow, American consumers demand so much that we would still need to import it.
Tariffs will cause the price of coffee to go up. Profit margins are so low...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Better Way]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/04/a_better_way_152599.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One need not rely on experts to know tariffs are typically not a good policy. Going back to Adam Smith writing "The Wealth of Nations," we know it is better to manufacture cheap commodities in areas that can make them cheaply so that wealthier nations can spend their wealth more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Canary in the Coal Mine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/21/the_canary_in_the_coal_mine_152539.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of pages related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy were released this week. Not to spoil it, but he dies in the end. In the process of reviewing the documents, it is apparent that the government kept a lot private because the names of CIA agents...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Alternative to Tariffs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/14/an_alternative_to_tariffs_152505.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Contrary to what some supporters of President Donald Trump claim and the President himself asserts, tariffs are not paid by foreign governments, but by the American people. Importers pay taxes on each part or whole product imported into the country. They then raise the price of goods to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Poisoning of the Democrat Mind]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/07/the_poisoning_of_the_democrat_mind_152475.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump stood in the House of Representatives and introduced DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old boy battling brain cancer who desperately wants to be a police officer. His local police department made DJ an honorary officer. Last year, a video went viral of people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Understanding Even If Not Agreeing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/28/understanding_even_if_not_agreeing_152437.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the United Nations, the United States sided with Russia, Belarus and North Korea -- three authoritarian regimes currently rampaging through parts of Ukraine -- against a General Assembly resolution that noted Russia as the aggressor in the Ukrainian invasion. China and Iran would not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Downsizing Happens]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/21/downsizing_happens_152398.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chelsea Milburn is a disabled veteran of the United States Navy who, until recently, worked for the United States Department of Education. As part of cuts from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, she has lost her job. On Wednesday, she appeared on the news and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Dunning-Kruger Plane Crash]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/31/a_dunning-kruger_plane_crash_152288.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Dunning-Kruger Effect is in full force these days. It posits that those with less knowledge of a subject have more certainty about the subject. For example, a layman is far more certain about the big bang than the astrophysicist. The armchair aviation expert is far more certain of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Entropy on the Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/17/entropy_on_the_right_152214.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church, the fourth largest cathedral in the world, and unfinished. Begun in 1892, it is more exhibition hall than gathering for Christians. Given the rate of decline of the Episcopal Church, once called the Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Progressive Hellscape]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/10/a_progressive_hellscape_152180.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA["February was the wettest month in downtown Los Angeles since 1998. With over 12 inches of rain drenching the city, it was the fourth-wettest February -- and the seventh-wettest month overall -- in the city's nearly 150-year recorded history," said Judson Jones' report on Los Angeles'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problemed Nominee]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/12/06/the_problemed_nominee_152056.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. Hegseth left a well-paid Wall Street job to deploy with the Army National Guard to Guantanamo Bay in 2004, and then to Iraq shortly afterward. He then worked for military nonprofits before...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Worldview Matters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/22/worldview_matters_151989.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is a truism that does not get talked about enough, but is innately part of being a conservative, or really a person of any ideological conviction -- worldview matters.
Those of us on the right have long understood this.
If, for example, a person is an atheist who believes there is no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/15/dear_democrats_151951.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is going to be OK. It really will. You'll have the midterms in two years. There'll be another presidential election in four years. Those of you reading this insisting there will be no more elections are no better than the idiots on my side who think 2020 was stolen and that if Kamala...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Aftermath]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/08/the_aftermath_151918.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the night of the election, a member of the Trump team called me about an hour after polls had begun to close to tell me they saw signs of a win. A few hours later, a friend close to the Harris team called to tell me senior members of the campaign had begun advising senior Democrats...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Garbage In/Garbage Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/01/garbage_ingarbage_out_151882.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, a comedian opening the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden made a joke about Puerto Rico being a garbage island. On Monday, that was all the American press corps could talk about. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden declared former President Donald Trump's supporters were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Bold Miscalculation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/25/a_bold_miscalculation_151838.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is possible that former President Donald Trump has peaked too soon. The momentum in the race feels like it has moved in his direction, and we should never underestimate the Republicans' ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. However, it does not really seem so much that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Are the Big Names?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/10/11/where_are_the_big_names_151767.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erick Erickson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With only about 25 days until this damnably necessary act of democracy descends into recriminations and conversations about 2028, Donald Trump is barnstorming across the nation while Kamala Harris sits for interviews designed to generate turnout from her base.
Where are Barack and...]]></description>
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