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<title><![CDATA[Jeet Heer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/30953.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jeet Heer]]></description><category domain="30953">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Humiliated a Submissive Media at WHCD]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-humiliated-a-submissive-mainstream-media-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner/ar-AA28NdXe</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His speech was racist, homophobic, vindictive, and soul-crushingly unfunny'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the journalists in the crowd didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t seem to care. Fittingly, the disgraceful second edition of the 2026 White House Correspondents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Dinner (WHCD) was celebrated in a venue that embodies Donald...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Zohran Mamdani Saved the Fourth of July]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/bioc9</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In normal times, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nothing more tedious than a Fourth of July speech. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an occasion for self-congratulatory nationalist backslapping, pompous mythmaking, and oily celebrations of unity that always evade the reality of political divisions. But in a time of crisis, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Establishment Democrats Embrace Loserdom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/james-carville-democrats-new-york-left/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some centrists would rather have Trump triumph than forge an alliance with the left.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Deal Is a Humiliation for Trump, Good News for the World]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/xaBAT</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to negotiating an end to war, Donald Trump suffers from a severe case of premature proclamation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Fourth of July Fiasco Is Entirely His Fault]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/shxe1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's 250th anniversary celebrations are falling apart because of the president's tawdry display of narcissism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/xRNi1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Any expansion of the alleged peace agreement would lock the Middle East into endless apartheid, despotism, and militarism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Iran Won the Meme Wars]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-iran-won-the-meme-wars/ar-AA20NkAa</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While Donald Trump panders to MAGA, Iranian satire is reaching a global audience.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Never Should Have Been a Liberal Hero]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/robert-mueller-never-should-have-been-a-liberal-hero/ar-AA1Z9Tm0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The cult of Mueller foolishly prioritized legal prosecution over political organizing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Revolt of the Republican Women]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-revolt-of-the-republican-women/ar-AA1RN0LX</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Speaker Mike Johnson has strong opinions on the differences between men and women. On a recent podcast, Johnson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wife, Kelly,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' noted'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that her husband likes to say, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Men and women are different in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';'that men can compartmentalize things.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Giving metaphorical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Losing Control of MAGA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-is-losing-control-of-maga/ar-AA1QBIrO</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His surrender on the Epstein files'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and his attack on Marjorie Taylor Greene'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'proves it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Portland's Dancing Protesters Are Standing Up to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/portland-s-dancing-protesters-are-showing-us-how-to-stand-up-to-trump/ar-AA1OewPb</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump wants the world to think that Portland is a veritable hell-on-earth'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'so scary and out of control that the National Guard needs to step in and bring peace.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Shortest Presidential Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-shortest-presidential-campaign/ar-AA1NlC2W</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Presidents cast long shadows. Vice presidents are usually doomed to live in those shadows.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/elections/zohran-mamdani-is-keeping-hope-alive/ar-AA1JrAFJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Current American politics is a dismal race between two sinking ships heading to the bottom of the sea. Donald Trump, never a widely loved figure and only president because he positioned himself as the alternative to an unpopular status quo, has again made himself an intensely despised...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Committed to Learning Nothing From Harris Loss]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-democratic-party-remains-committed-to-learning-nothing-from-its-2024-defeat/ar-AA1J0ns7</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic National Committee'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s forthcoming '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'autopsy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is a cover-up to protect the failed leaders who twice lost to Trump.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Party Is Literally Dying]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-democratic-party-is-literally-dying/ar-AA1Fn1Bw</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In theory, the Democratic Party is a political organization aimed at gaining power and implementing an agenda. In practice, the Democrats more closely resemble a hospice, if not a funeral home. An inordinately large number of party leaders are so old and infirm they are at death'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Need Honest Reckoning With Biden's Failed Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-original-sin-democratic-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former president's stubbornness and narcissism led to disastrous Trump victory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Last (Michael) Waltz]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-last-michael-waltz/ar-AA1E3RKE</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We should welcome the humiliation of Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hawkish, neocon national security adviser.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Save the Democratic Party From Itself]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-to-save-the-democratic-party-from-itself/ar-AA1AsS0H</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After only seven weeks, Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s second go around as president is already shaping be an even bigger fiasco than his first term, which ignominiously ended in 2020 when the largest electoral coalition in American history tossed him out of the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Proves He's Always in Campaign Mode]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-boasts-threats-and-lies-trump-proves-he-s-always-in-campaign-mode/ar-AA1Ah6j1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president understands that politics never stops. Democrats should do the same.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Stealing the Kennedy Brand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-is-stealing-the-kennedy-brand/ar-AA1z48Bf</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Elon Musk acting as the de facto commander in chief, even holding high level photo ops with foreign leaders like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the nominal president Donald Trump has a lot of time on his hands.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Indictment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/joe-biden-s-indictment/ar-AA1xWZgm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden unexpectedly saved the best for last. No one ever accused the former president of being an outstanding orator. In his last two years in office, he was increasingly halting and confused in his public speeches. But on January 15, less than a week before his successor was sworn...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CNN Surrenders to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/cnn-surrender-trump-corporate-media/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The corporate media's commitment to fighting autocracy proves fickle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supposed Unity Message Is Gloating Threat of MAGA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-supposed-unity-message-is-a-gloating-threat-of-maga-triumphant/ar-AA1xxV36</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the run-up to Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s second inaugural address, his staff leaked a remarkable promise: that in this speech, we would see a kinder, gentler Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prosecutorial Liberalism Has Failed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/despite-trump-s-felony-conviction-prosecutorial-liberalism-has-failed/ar-BB1rnziv</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals have little enough to be cheerful about right now, so one can hardly begrudge a little glee at the news on Friday that a New York court declared Donald Trump a convicted felon over the hush-money payments he made to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trudeau's Fecklessness Made Him an Easy Target]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/justin-trudeau-s-fecklessness-made-him-an-easy-target-for-maga-manifest-destiny/ar-BB1rdEzh</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States probably won't annex Canada. But Trump's imperial dreams are already destabilizing the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Awards Participation Trophies to Failed Establishment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/joe-biden-loves-awarding-participation-trophies-to-the-failed-establishment/ar-AA1x3Owx</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In theory, the beheading of a king and queen should trigger some sober reflections in the ruling class. But after Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette were famously guillotined in 1793, the surviving members of the House of Bourbon and their most fervent supporters were still adamantly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elder Abuse Is No Way To Run a Government]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/granger-kuster-gerontocracy-elder-abuse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The corridors of power increasingly resemble a nursing home'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'if not a hospice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Bodyguard of Liars Betrayed America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-bodyguard-liars-gerontocracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gerontocracy, pro-establishment politics and deception by Democratic Party insiders all helped elect Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Difference That Matters Isn't Between Left and Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-difference-that-matters-most-isn-t-between-left-and-right/ar-AA1w6fZn</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2016, American politics was turned upside down by the Obama-Trump voter, but in 2024 we have an even stranger phenomenon: the AOC-Trump voter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, Harris Staffers Did Not Run a 'Flawless' Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/harris-democratic-staff-defeat-responsibility/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeet Heer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic strategists are still patting themselves on the back for a catastrophic defeat.]]></description>
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