RealClearPolitics Week of November 18, 2024 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

Monday, November 18

How America's Accurate Election Polls Were Suppressed

Matt Taibbi, Racket News

Unity, But Not Compromise, Is the Path Forward

Frank Miele, RealClearPolitics

Trump's Worst Cabinet Picks Part of a Bigger Power Grab

Doyle McManus, LA Times

Trump's War on DC Establishment Requires This Cabinet

Jonathan Tobin, Newsweek

How Far Will Trump Go To Install His Unqualified Cabinet?

Philip Rotner, The Bulwark

Confirm Matt Gaetz

Paul du Quenoy, Chronicles

Trump Is Testing the Senate. Guess Who Will Win That One?

Michael Tomasky, TNR

Hegseth Will Help Make U.S. Military Great Again

Kurt Schlichter, Townhall

Biden Escalates War Against Russia, Greenlights Deep Strikes

Mike Stone, Reuters

Can Trump End Ukraine’s ‘Endless War?’

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

The Resistance Will Look Different This Time. That's OK

Christina Cauterucci, Slate

NY Times Loves 'Election Deniers' If They're Democrats

Brianna Lyman, The Federalist

Steve Bannon's Second Term

Andrew Rice, New York Magazine

Pelosi Is Done. No One More To Blame for Dems $1B Collapse

Miranda Devine, NYP

Don't Accept the Premise That 'Trans Athletes' Is Even an Issue

Jen Psaki, MSNBC

Liberals Have No Answers for a Modern Age in Crisis

Nesrine Malik, The Guardian

MAFA: Make America Fun Again

Rep. Byron Donalds, X

Tuesday, November 19

Voters Rejected Harris' Left-Leaning Platform

Schoen & Cooperman, The Hill

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Stops Attempt To Steal Votes

Salena Zito, DC Examiner

Democrats Got Wiped Out in 2004. This Is What They Did Next

Nicole Narea, Vox

Gaetz Probe Based on Witnesses Found Not Credible

Mollie Hemingway, Federalist

The Guide to Fighting Back Against Trump 2.0

Greenberg & Levin, MSNBC

Why Progressives Don't Have Their Own Joe Rogan

Rich Lowry, New York Post

Will Democrats Finally Learn a Lesson?

Daniel Lipinski, RealClearPolitics

Bureaucrats With Trump Policy Disagreements Should Resign

Mike Davis, WarRoom

The Bulls in Trump's China Shop

Robert Kuttner, American Prospect

Immigration Is a Team Sport

Tim Kane, RealClearPolitics

Departing Scientific American Editor Helped Degrade Science

Jesse Singal, Reason

George Gascon Was His Own Worst Enemy

Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times

Here's Why Asian Americans Shifted Right

Neetu Arnold, RealClearPolitics

What Happened to the Minor Party Candidacies?

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

Mass Deportations Are Not Enough

Mark Krikorian, TomKlingenstein.com

Dean Phillips Is Still Worried About Democrats' Strategy

Owen Dahlkamp, The Nation

Bernie Marcus: A Do-It-Yourself Life

Steven Malanga, City Journal

Wednesday, November 20

How Science Lost Our Trust & Turned to Health Policy Skeptics

Liz Whyte, WSJ

Science More Dogmatic Today Than 17th Century Catholic Church

Peter Thiel, X

Food Lobbyists Plot To Have It Their Way With RFK Jr.

Lee Fang, RCI & LeeFang.com

Trump Takes His Time With Choice for Head of Secret Service

Susan Crabtree, RCP

Polling, Like the NYT/Siena Polls, Is Not the Problem

Nate Silver, New York Times

Media Polls Were Manufacturing a Fake Harris Lead All Fall

Mark Mitchell, X

PA Recount: Democracy or Election Denial?

Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

Trump Picks Are Agents of His Contempt & Vengeance

Sidney Blumenthal, Guardian

Why DC Establishment Is Terrified of Trump's Cabinet Picks

Sean Collins, Spiked

Mace Threatened By Trans Colleague, Not Alleged Rapists

Margaret Hartmann, NYM

I Will Not Allow Men To Invade Women's Private Spaces

Rep. Nancy Mace, X

Trump Is Obsessed With Destroying the Media

Dara Brewton, Newsweek

Some Medicine for Our Corporate Media

Jeff Minick, Chronicles

Mr. & Mrs. Scarborough Go to Mar-a-Lago

Chris Lehmann, The Nation

The Soul of American Greatness

Terrence Keeley, RealClearPolitics

Why Republicans Should Cool It With the Mandate Talk

Jim Newell, Slate

High Country Murder

Palladium Pictures Incubator

Thursday, November 21

The Laken Riley Case and Presidential Politics

Byron York, Washington Examiner

The 'But Harris Ran as a Moderate' Evasion

Michael Baharaeen, Substack

GOP Should Defend Gaetz To Stop Dem Political Games

Margot Cleveland, Federalist

What Trump's Revenge Agenda Is Hiding

Heather Parton, Salon

Ignore Progressives' Whining. U.S. Needs Elon and Vivek

Nicole Russell, USA Today

Were Polls Right? RCP Averages Performed Well This Year

Mark Mellman, The Hill

Billionaire Musk Foe Bankrolls 2nd Trump Resistance

Gabe Kaminsky, DC Examiner

DOJ Apparatchiks Told To Lawyer Up, Flee the Country. Why?

Julie Kelly, Substack

Blood and Treasure

Robert Kuttner, American Prospect

Nonprofits Influence Climate Cases vs. Energy Companies

Jonathan Draeger, RCP

We Are Still at War

Tom Klingenstein, TomKlingenstein.com

No, 'Woke' Politics Isn't Why Harris Lost

Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC

DEI Cash Cow

Christopher Rufo, City Journal

Democrats Used To Be the More Tolerant Party

Cenk Uygur, X

How Intel Agencies Overrule the President

Russ Vought, Tucker Carlson Show

Embracing China Was Our Greatest Strategic Failure

Fanell & Thayer, RealClearPolitics

Spares: Second Chance Stories of Frozen Embryos

Palladium Pictures Incubator

Friday, November 22

Dems Have Lost the Plot in the View of Working-Class Voters

Ruy Teixeira, Substack

The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity

Victor Davis Hanson, Am. Greatness

Harris Disappointed Gen Z

Eifert, Lake, Slade & Tarver, American Prospect

Democrats Need Their Own Donald Trump

J. Peder Zane, RealClearPolitics

Where Should Democrats Point the Finger?

Seth Masket, Los Angeles Times

RCP Average Was Industry's Most Accurate

Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

Would Bill Buckley Be Anti-Trump? Not So Fast

Jack Fowler, RealClearPolitics

How Matt Gaetz Crashed and Burned

McGraw, et al., Politico

Trump Picks Bondi for AG. Was He Playing '4D Chess'?

Josh Hammer, Am. Spectator

Donald Trump’s Most Dangerous Cabinet Pick

Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic

Why Pete Hegseth Is the Right Man To Run the Pentagon

Chuck DeVore, Federalist

RFK Could Be a Transformational Health Secretary

Neil Barsky, The Guardian

A Perilous Moment: Raging Wars and an Addled President

Byron York, DC Examiner

Is Ukraine War Escalating or Headed to an Endgame?

Christopher Chivvis, Guardian

An Outrageous War Crime Case Against Israel

Douglas Murray, New York Post

Mace's Shameless Exploitation of Trans Congresswoman

Robin Abcarian, L.A. Times

Bird and the Bee: Satire, Social Media, and Censorship

Palladium Pictures Incubator

Saturday, November 23

Not a Democrat. The Party Left Me

Joe Klein, Substack

Decline and Fall of America? Not Yet

David Mamet, Wall Street Journal

The Most Fatal Mistake of Biden's Term

Pahwa & Ali, Slate

Sanctuary Cities, Venezuelan Gangs, Horror Stories To Show

Debra Saunders, LVRJ

Trump's Other Big Victory

Alex Shephard, The New Republic

What RFK Jr. Can Do as Sec. of Health and Human Services

Alex Berenson, Substack

Tearing the Leviathan Apart

Ryun & Corallo, American Greatness

Biden Should Begin Negotiations To End Russia-Ukraine War

Jeet Heer, The Nation

How McCormick Won Pennsylvania's Senate Race

Salena Zito, Washington Examiner

Frontline Democrats Won With Populist Messages

Luke Goldstein, American Prospect

Phony Partisan 'Charities' Overplayed Their Hand in 2024

Parker Thayer, RCP

Build More Prisons

Charles Lehman, City Journal

Democrats Can Still Lower Drug Prices

Howard Dean, Salon

The UK Is a Window to Our Dystopian Future

Poppy Coburn, TomKlingenstein.com

If Politics Were Business, Regulators Would Bust It

Lura Forcum, RealClearPolitics

The Progressive Case Against Open Borders

Lee Fang, UnHerd

Laken Riley Needed a Daniel Penny

Elle Purnell, The Federalist

Sunday, November 24

Trump’s Mission To Dismantle the Administrative State

Roger Kimball, Am. Greatness

Bondi Pick Shows Trump 2.0 Is Organized Chaos

Jonathan Capehart, PBS NewsHour

Dems' Lawfare, Smears Only Contributed to Trump's Win

Michael Goodwin, NY Post

Dems Need Less Identity Politics, More Practical Economics

Harry Holzer, The Hill

Even After Trump Trouncing, Dems Refuse To Learn Lessons

Julian Epstein, NY Post

Why Were Liberal Pollsters So Far Off...Again?

Hayden Ludwig, Restoration News

Campaign Attack Dog Vance Tries on New Role

Salama & Wise, Wall Street Journal

RFK Jr. Is Being Normalized Fairly Fast

Jeffrey Goldberg, Washington Week

Study Vaccine Risk Factors Without Censoring or Slander

Martin Kulldorff, Federalist

Trump Immigration Crackdown Could Extend to Northern Border

Nicole Narea, Vox

No Closure, No Justice for Laken Riley

John Kass, JohnKassNews

Why I'm Not Going To Pre-Hate the Trump Administration

Bill Maher, Real Time

Trump Forgives His Enemies

Everett Piper, Washington Times

Starmer Plays China Card, Sends Message to Trump

Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

Is Starmer Damaging the 'Special Relationship' Already?

Douglas Murray, Spectator

HBCUs Are in Front in Race To Attract Students

Ira Porter, Christian Science Monitor

Trump and Congress Gear Up To Fight Campus Antisemitism

Peter Berkowitz, RCP