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<title><![CDATA[Evan Barker - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/51437.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Evan Barker]]></description><category domain="51437">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[It's Impossible To Learn When You're in Survival Mode]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thetimes.com/article/3a3bd28f-91bc-4c6e-9e5b-68ce49aaec9d</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This was my biggest challenge, not a lack of experienced teachers or school funding.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Progress, Inc.' Wants Blue-Collar Vibes, Not Policies]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2026/09/how-progress-inc-neuters-working-class-politics/?edition=us</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The trouble is that the Left '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' more specifically, a complex of donors, media outlets, consultants, and organizations '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t actually tolerate working-class values when it comes to cultural questions like immigration, race, and gender.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Story of How Democrats Went Off the Deep End]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/why-i-left-the-left?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I spent my entire career helping progressives get elected. Then I watched my party abandon everything it claimed to stand for.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Former Colleagues Are Destroying Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/my-former-colleagues-are-destroying-democrats-dsa?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Working-class people don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t want to abolish ICE. They want prisons to exist and for the police to be well funded. Obsession with identity politics is not at the forefront of their minds. They want candidates who focus on the economy, and who will stand up for their safety.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has the Party I Quit Learned Anything?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/dnc-autopsy-report-2024-election-loss?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic leaders buried a report that reveals all the reasons they lost in 2024. Now it's public'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and most of its findings are still problems today, writes Evan Barker.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew Yang: I Was Glad To Be Blacklisted by Harris Camp]]></title>
							<link>https://evanbarker.substack.com/p/andrew-yang-i-was-glad-to-be-blacklisted</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I recently read an advance copy of Andrew Yang's new book. Here's my review.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Right-Left Populist Movement Is the Future of Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://evanbarker.substack.com/p/the-future-of-our-politics-is-anti</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past Friday, President Donald Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani held a masterful press conference in the Oval Office. As the fellow triumphant underdogs met and praised each other, a genuine admiration was apparent between the two men.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Don't Regret Leaving the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://evanbarker.substack.com/p/i-worked-for-democrats-for-years</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I grew up a Democrat and worked for its biggest progressive stars. Then I voted for Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and watched my community turn on me.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Are Out of Luck, Out of Ideas, Stuck With Mamdani]]></title>
							<link>https://evanbarker.substack.com/p/after-charlie-kirks-death-expect</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Republicans become totally unified, the Democrats are out of luck, out of ideas '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and will mobilize around whoever is the next great hope]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DNC Needs a Revolution (Just Not the One They Think)]]></title>
							<link>https://evanbarker.substack.com/p/the-dnc-needs-a-revolution-just-not</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just this past week, the Democratic National Committee held its summer meeting in Minnesota.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Hemorrhaging Voter Registrations. What Will Stop It?]]></title>
							<link>https://evanbarker.substack.com/p/democrats-are-hemorrhaging-voter</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, the New York Times wrote a jaw-dropping article about the Democrats' voter registration woes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Dems Should've Spoken Out About Harris' Candidacy]]></title>
							<link>https://evanbarker.substack.com/p/one-year-ago-today-i-ruined-my-life</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One year ago today, on August 24th, 2024, I was freshly back from three days at the Democratic National Convention.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Feel Remorse for the Work I Did on Democrat Campaigns]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/i-worked-democrats-years-billionaires-have-unfettered-influence-opinion-1961471</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the summer of 2020, I worked as a consultant for multiple progressive DA candidates'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' backed by'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' George Soros'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and his foundation. In the places where they won, these DAs have since done immeasurable damage to the local communities. They failed to prosecute offenders, especially...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At the DNC, I Realized Democrats Are the Party of the Rich]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/i-raised-millions-democrats-dnc-i-realized-theyre-party-rich-opinion-1955377</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Barker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party has lost its way. They speak to the college educated, the urban and affluent, in their language. Their tone is condescending.]]></description>
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