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<title><![CDATA[Ruth Ben-Ghiat - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/33160.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ruth Ben-Ghiat]]></description><category domain="33160">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Plans for 2025 Sound Like a Vengeful Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-presidential-power-second-term-2024-autocracy-rcna95098</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neutralizing the media's power to expose his well-documented corruption would be a top priority.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Look to Authoritarians Abroad to See Where GOP Headed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/op-ed-look-to-authoritarian-parties-abroad-to-see-where-the-gop-is-headed/ar-AA11dWlY</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In autocracies, demand for loyalty to the leader is paramount and surges when the leader faces legal challenges or threats to his power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Businesses Respond as DeSantis Battles Corporate America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/opinions/florida-businesses-desantis-political-fight-ben-ghiat</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Florida is fighting back,"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' tweeted'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Aug. 22. "We stand for the values of places like Destin, Dunedin and Deland - not Davos." Who is the enemy DeSantis is combatting? "Woke CEOs" and any "corporate power" that aims to impose "an ideological agenda on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Parental Control Is a Smoke Screen for Right-Wing Activists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/opinions/parental-control-smoke-screen-right-wing-activists-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[School drop-off used to be a happy occasion, a time for children to reunite with their friends and parents and caregivers to socialize. For a growing number of Americans, that's no longer the case, writes Ruth Ben-Ghiat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Call Highlights White House Bunker Mentality]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-call-georgia-election-officials-highlights-white-house-bunker-ncna1252697</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's actions are giving Americans a taste of the maneuvers autocrats engage in when they feel desperate to keep power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Formula for Building a Lasting Personality Cult]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-trumps-formula-building-113042610.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's greatest achievement in office is using mass media, as generations of strongmen have done, to keep followers loyal no matter what.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 2020 Campaign Strategy: Psychological Warfare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/opinions/trump-campaign-strategy-psychological-warfare-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes that Donald Trump only cares about serving those Americans who support him, although even his most devoted followers must be kept as dependent as possible on him and distrustful of everyone and everything else. To that end, it's useful for him to keep peddling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Trump, Reality Is Just a Prop He Doesn't Care to Use]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/opinions/trump-rnc-speech-strongman-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ruth Ben-Ghiat compares Presdent Donald Trump's 2020 re-nomination acceptance speech at the RNC, festooned with trappings of power to the showman spectacle of his 2016 speech and says it's clear how comfortably Trump now wears the role of strongman.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spiteful Trump Suspends Global Entry and Makes Us Unsafe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/opinions/global-entry-new-yorkers-trump-dhs-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Revoking Global Entry has less to do with security than with the latest retaliation by Trump against a state that contains New York City, a place he felt has never really accepted him, says Ruth Ben-Ghiat. She says Trump wants what all authoritarians want: conformity -- and he'll try to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies Come Back to Bite Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/opinions/trump-authoritarian-tendencies-come-back-at-him-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat analyzes President Donald Trump's current situation amid an impending impeachment fight and argues that the hot water he finds himself in now reflects a predictable patttern for leaders like him who follow the authoritarian playbook.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump's Military Showboating Is Hugely Ironic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/05/opinions/trump-fourth-of-july-event-military-opinion-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is not a leader who has our national interests at heart, unlike the many service members who embody patriotism every day as they risk their lives for our country, writes Ruth Ben-Ghiat]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is Right: U.S. Democracy Is Fragile]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/09/opinions/obama-hitler-germany-democracy-warning-ben-ghiat-opinion/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former President was right to use the rise of Hitler in Germany as a warning to the current state of US politics, Ruth Ben-Ghiat says.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Loaded Word of the Week: Cosmopolitan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/opinions/cosmopolitan-bias-immigration-opinion-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I was a child, we had a next-door neighbor, an elderly woman. She spoke only to my mother, who was blonde, green-eyed and Scottish. When my dark-skinned father (who was from the Middle East, but often taken for Indian or Hispanic) would cross her path, she would stare stonily into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Authoritarian Playbook: What's Next?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/opinions/trump-authoritarian-playbook-continues-ben-ghiat-opinion/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ruth Ben-Ghiat: I predicted Donald Trump would follow the authoritarian playbook. After six months in office, it's clear he is doing just that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals Are Reclaiming Patriotism from the Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/02/opinions/liberal-patriotism-rise-opinion-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has contributed to a rise in patriotic sentiment among Democrats, which if appropriately harnessed, could revive the party, writes Ruth Ben-Ghiat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Rejects Anti-Semitism? Prove It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/21/opinions/trump-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a campaign that trafficked in bigotry, Trump should rid the White House of alt-right influences, reject considering a plan that would limit terror probes to Muslim-linked acts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Following the Authoritarian Playbook]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/opinions/trump-following-authoritarian-playbook-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In less than a week, America will embark on a new political experience: rule by an authoritarian President. Donald Trump won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million. So, for every American who looks forward to the Trump era, there is likely another who fears...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Made Hatred Profitable for Milo Yiannopoulos]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/opinions/milo-yiannopoulos-and-trump-profitable-hate-ben-ghiat-opinion/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA["America's favorite mischievous gay conservative," is how publisher Simon &amp; Schuster bills its newest high-profile author, Milo Yiannopoulos. The news that the Breitbart senior editor had received a reported $250,000 advance for his book "Dangerous" (to be published in March 2017) has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Steve Bannon's White Nationalism Should Scare America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/opinions/trump-bannon-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who is surprised at the appointment of right-wing guru Steve Bannon as the Donald Trump administration's chief strategist and counselor has been living in an alternate universe, the universe in which President-elect Trump would "pivot" into something resembling a mainline GOP...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Note to Gingrich: America Is Changing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/26/opinions/megyn-kelly-gingrich-interview-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Newt Gingrich is hoping for a political revival with a Trump win, then he needs to do better research on the mood of the country, Ruth Ben-Ghiat says.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Straight Talk on Trump &amp; the Alt-Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/25/opinions/clinton-alt-right-speech-ben-ghiat/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Ben-Ghiat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's speech calling out the candidate's embrace of hate-mongers was an invitation to those in the GOP repelled by this, says Ruth Ben-Ghiat]]></description>
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