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<title><![CDATA[Nicole Hemmer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/26362.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Nicole Hemmer]]></description><category domain="26362">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Musk's Power Over GOP Has Eerie Historical Parallel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/musk-republicans-government-shutdown-rush-limbaugh-rcna185117</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The specter of voters whipped into a frenzy by an outsider with a megaphone is not new to Republican politicians.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Evolution of Bill Maher]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/opinions/bill-maher-what-this-comedian-said-will-shock-you-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past 30 years, Bill Maher has built a brand as a risk-taking contrarian. In an era when comedians like Jerry Seinfeld were offering observational comedy seemingly devoid of political content, Maher offered observational commentary that fed off controversy and political debate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nikki Haley Is Ready for Her Closeup]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Picking through the rubble of the 2016 election, journalists not only peered deep into the rural red counties of Trump country and the ragged remains of the Clinton campaign, but also turned inward, toward themselves.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the GOP Used 'Joe the Plumber' To Sell a Myth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/31/opinions/joe-the-plumber-samuel-wurzelbacher-republicans-2008-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a few weeks in the fall of 2008, Samuel Wurzelbacher, who died earlier this week, played a central role in the presidential campaign between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. The headlines marking his passing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' an untimely and unfortunate death from cancer at 49 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jason Aldean Can&rsquo;t Rewrite the History His Song Depends On]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/opinions/opinion-jason-aldean-video-cmt-vigilantism-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was mid-November 1927 when, at a Tennessee courthouse wrapped in patriotic decor to celebrate Armistice Day, a White mob seized a Black teenager named Henry Choate and hanged him from the building'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s balcony. The accusations against him '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that he had attacked a White girl...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The January 6 Report Is a 'Mirror Test' for Americans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/opinions/jan-6-report-mirror-test-hemmer</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late Thursday night, the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection released its final report, a bulging 845-page account of a months-long effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In its detailed account, the committee shows how former...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why America Keeps Re-Living the 1990s]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/opinions/newt-gingrich-kevin-mccarthy-reliving-the-1990s-hemmer</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The January 6 committee wants to talk to Newt Gingrich and Kevin McCarthy is looking to stage his own version of Gingrich's 1994 'Contract for America' -- Nicole Hemmer says we're living in a 1990s throwback in more ways than one. She points to three events in the 1990s that help explain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Need To Hear Katie Porter's Words on Inflation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/opinions/inflation-katie-porter-democrats-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a private meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, California Rep. Katie Porter detailed the impact inflation was having on her family. She recounted a recent stop at the grocery store when she tossed a package of bacon into her cart before realizing its price had ballooned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Greater Farce Than Justice Alito's Appeal to Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/opinions/abortion-rights-samuel-alito-roe-v-wade-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is perhaps no greater farce than Justice Samuel Alito's appeal to democracy in his draft opinion on abortion, writes historian Nicole Hemmer, who argues anti-abortion extremism, already an unpopular and deadly force in US politics, will kill more Americans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Nearly Everyone Is Getting Wrong on Student Debt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/opinions/student-debt-biden-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent news conference, President Joe Biden restated his commitment to offer some relief for student loan borrowers, promising a decision within the next few weeks. He emphasized that he would stick to the compromise position he worked out in the 2020 campaign: some relief, but not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right-Wing Children's Entertainment Complex Is Upon Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/opinions/children-literature-disney-desantis-tuttle-twins-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nicole Hemmer writes that we are witnessing the emergence of a full-on right-wing children's entertainment complex. Its sole mission: to fight what the right sees as liberal indoctrination with some indoctrination of its own.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What 'WeCrashed' and 'The Dropout' Tell Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/19/opinions/wecrashed-the-dropout-new-economy-capitalism-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA["I was up there with him at the top of the world." That's how Harrison Weber, editorial director of the office-leasing company WeWork,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' recalled the evening in 2013'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' when he stood by the company's founder, Adam Neumann, in the upper floors of the Woolworth building.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Moral Question of War as a Spectator Event]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/opinions/watching-ukraine-war-on-screen-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was in sixth grade the first time I watched a war. We had only just gotten cable at our home in rural Indiana, and after school, my brother and I would turn on CNN to see the sky over Baghdad filtered through night-vision lenses, bathed in a neon green color reminiscent of the glow...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[School Board Recalls Sending a Dangerous Message]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/opinions/san-francisco-school-board-recall-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the results in San Francisco school board recall may resist simple analysis, the politics swirling around the recall tell us something important about a process underway across the country - and the long history of 'parents' rights' rhetoric, writes Nicole Hemmer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the SAT's Waning Relevance Really Tells Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/opinions/sat-waning-relevance-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following the SAT's move to a shorter digital format, historian Nicole Hemmer weighs on the test's past, present and uncertain future.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Capitol Riot Was a Test the U.S. Keeps Failing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/opinions/january-6-a-test-us-keeps-failing-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recently revealed text messages make even clearer former President Donald Trump's failure to act on January 6, says Nicole Hemmer. But while Trump's supporters on the right bear responsibility for both the insurrection and efforts to erase it, they are not the only ones who have failed,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Dr. Oz Went From Oprah Protege to Trump Cheerleader]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/opinions/dr-oz-went-run-for-the-senate-oprah-trump-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Oprah for President." That was the rallying cry rattling across the internet in early 2018, days after Oprah Winfrey delivered a powerful, and pointed, speech at the Golden Globes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi Exploded the Myth of Bipartisanship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/21/opinions/pelosi-mccarthy-jan-6-select-committee-bipartisanship-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi was right to reject Kevin McCarthy's recommendations for the select committee on the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, writes Nicole Hemmer; she says Pelosi's move exposes Washington's 80-year bipartisanship fetish as a historical fallacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the GOP Can't Shake Its Loyalty to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/opinions/gop-loyalty-trump-big-lie-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nicole Hemmer writes the Republican Party has continued to protect former President Donald Trump and the Big Lie as part of a dangerous effort 'to hold on to power and to subvert democracy.']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Is Panicking Over Critical Race Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/18/opinions/critical-race-theory-right-wing-moral-panic-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nicole Hemmer writes that the recent weaponizing of hysteria over critical race theory is not a new phenomenon. Right-wing forces attempted the same in 2012, but this moral panic has taken stronger hold now because it is such a useful political distraction from debates about racial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Our Political Environment, Lies &amp; Liars Are Normalized]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/opinions/trump-lying-in-politics-goes-deeper-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Donald Trump's social media feeds went dark after the insurrection at the Capitol, it felt like a fog beginning to lift. For more than five years, starting with his campaign announcement in June 2015, political journalism had been clogged with a nonstop torrent of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hunter Biden's Story Is a Window Into America's Soul]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/07/opinions/hunter-biden-book-addiction-love-politics-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Crackhead Hunter." That was the slur Donald Trump Jr. hurled at now-President Joe Biden's younger son after the first presidential debate, during which Trump Sr. falsely stated that Hunter Biden had been dishonorably discharged for cocaine use. (Hunter had been discharged after testing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Jim Crow Looks Like in 2021]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/opinions/voting-rights-suppression-is-jim-crow-suit-and-tie-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The idea that new voting restrictions being pushed in Georgia and other states are a more sanitized version of Jim Crow -- dressed up in a 'suit and tie' or with 'cologne' as voting rights advocates put it -- says a lot about popular understanding of that era of racism and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Limbaugh's Pernicious Influence Will Long Outlive Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/opinions/trump-is-the-rush-limbaugh-legacy-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today's Republican Party is Rush Limbaugh's legacy, writes historian Nicole Hemmer of the conservative icon who died Wednesday. Limbaugh's talk radio show was crucial to the right-wing media ecosystem not only because he was an ardent Trump supporter, but because, over the course of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the 1776 Commission and the Fight Over History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/opinions/biden-1776-commission-trump-fight-over-history-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 1776 Commission - dissolved in one of President Biden's first acts in office - is more than the detritus left by the Trump administration, says historian Nicole Hemmer. It marks the depth of right-wing commitment to ideological pseudo-history that can be used to shut down any...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why History Shows Court Packing Isn't Extreme]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/opinions/court-packing-isnt-extreme-barrett-supreme-court-hearing-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Historian Nicole Hemmer says court packing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' as both a phrase and a historical precedent dating back to FDR and John Adams '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' obscures more than it reveals about the current debate over the size of the Supreme Court. She argues that history isn't an excuse to ignore the unique...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President's Call for Poll-Watchers Summons a Dark History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/opinions/poll-watching-voter-intimidation-1981-consent-decree-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chris Wallace ended the first presidential debate Tuesday with a softball question, asking the candidates if they would urge their supporters not to engage in "civil unrest" around the election. Joe Biden gave a swift and clear yes. President Donald Trump did not.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid's Deadly Reality Shows How Far Away Normal Remains]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/opinions/return-to-normalcy-deadly-covid-19-risk-hemmer/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, several thousand mostly-conservative activists surrounded the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, to protest the governor's coronavirus lockdown orders.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Reject Iran Deal--&amp; All Diplomacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/opinion/why-republicans-reject-the-iran-deal-and-all-diplomacy.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicole Hemmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the nuclear deal with Iran was announced on July 14, Republicans have attacked it with fire-and-brimstone zeal. They have called it everything from appeasement to betrayal. President Obama has fired back, arguing that opposition to the deal stems from the same worldview that led to...]]></description>
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