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<title><![CDATA[Lee Drutman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/25771.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Lee Drutman]]></description><category domain="25771">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[65-Year-Old Theory Helps Explain Why Democrats Keep Losing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-65-year-old-theory-that-helps-explain-why-the-democrats-keep-losing/ar-AA1LMQJq</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic strategists think the party has a messaging problem. Post-election autopsies overflowed with countless cross-tabs of how Democrats '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'underperformed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' with demographic after demographic. There are endless debates about which words poll better (should Democrats stop...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Party Is (Still) Broken]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-party-still-broken-100000902.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sudden ascendance of Kamala Harris doesn't change the fact that the party suffers from deep, possibly fatal problems.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RFK Jr. Is Poised To Be a Chaos Factor in November]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/opinions/rfk-jr-third-party-chaos-factor-election-drutman/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a normal presidential election year, an anti-system third-party candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not be polling at nearly 10% at this point in the cycle. But this is not a normal year.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should We End the Two-Party System?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/disputed_questions/should-we-end-the-two-party-system.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is America headed for a second civil war? To judge from recent columns, books, and polls on the topic, we might be. If violence is the alternative to politics, and our democracy is fracturing under the strain of two competing parties, each viewing the other as illegitimate, then maybe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2-Party System Is Wrecking American Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-two-party-system-is-wrecking-american-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Big Lie'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' enact restrictive voting laws'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and pursue'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' preposterous election audits,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' aspiring'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' candidates'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' embrace the fiction of a stolen 2020 election, and a majority of GOP...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Republicans Pose a Threat to Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/08/american-democracy-fighting-for-its-life-republicans</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party poses a threat to the continuation of US democracy as we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve known it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Must Test McConnell's 'Scorched-Earth' Threat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/mcconnell-s-scorched-earth-senate-filibuster-threat-needs-be-tested-ncna1261231</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are certain principles that are too important, too essential, to allow a minority to hold them hostage. Voting rights and ballot access are among them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[George Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s farewell address is often remembered for its warning against hyper-partisanship: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[United We Fall]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2018/united-we-fall/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The more homogenous the parties become, the uglier the divide between them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Mourn the End of Objective Journalism]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/146895/learning-trust</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In January, the Knight Foundation issued a new'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' report'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'trust, media, and democracy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It was a long document'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'71 pages, with eight headings atop 28 bullet points in the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Key Findings'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' section alone'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and took a detailed look at why modern news...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Can Extend the Winning Streak Into 2018]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/opinion/how-democrats-can-extend-the-winning-streak-into-2018.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&amp;mtrref=undefined&amp;gwh=05C356F0C187CC5D6B17F8F8AB867A82&amp;gwt=pay&amp;assetType=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The key is to make economics central to our politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Identity Politics Is Solution for Dems, Not the Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144964/culture-stupid-identity-politics-problem-democrats-solution</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a long time in American politics, you could pretty well guess'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' how someone would vote by their income. Poor people generally supported Democrats; rich people voted Republican. This was true even among whites: In'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' every presidential election since at least 1948, wealthy whites have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Civil War in the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/opinion/democrats-divided-new-plan.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The divide is not left versus center but those who trust the system versus those who don't.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Draining the Swamp' Will Make Things Worse in D.C.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-drutman-hertel-fernandez-how-to-drain-swamp-20161127-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lee Drutman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump pledged to oust special interests from government by promising to drain the swamp in Washington. These three words may make for a clever chant. But Trump's key proposals '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' hiring freezes for the federal workforce, term limits for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are There Too Many Safe Seats?]]></title>
							<link>http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/12/05/fiscalcliff/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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