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<title><![CDATA[Jonah Goldberg - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14438.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jonah Goldberg]]></description><category domain="14438">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Admin Has No Actual Arguments - for Anything]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/jy55L</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has no actual arguments'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for anything.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Approval Rating Is Awful. He May Beat Trump Anyway]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/goldberg-president-bidens-job-approval-110037975.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's unpopularity would have once ensured his defeat. But that could be one of many old rules that won't apply to the 2024 election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Late: GOP Also-Rans Can't Stop Mess They Helped Create]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/column-it-s-too-late-gop-also-rans-nothing-will-stop-trump-except-maybe-the-law/ar-AA1fBUca</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So, Ron DeSantis gets it after all. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'A movement can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be about the personality of one individual,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' DeSantis told'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the Florida Standard. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If all we are is listless vessels that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Small Donors Became a Destructive Force in Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/goldberg-small-donors-become-destructive-100528890.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most ideologically polarizing candidates know how to monetize angry small donors, who reward further polarization. This cycle is a big business.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Wanted Clinton Prosecuted But Now Defends Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-republicans-wanted-clinton-prosecuted-100054957.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives' two defenses of Trump on the latest indictment are that he didn't do anything wrong and that it doesn't matter even if he did.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can GOP Be Persuaded To Vote for Someone Besides Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-republicans-persuaded-vote-someone-100044681.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis and other Republican candidates need to reeducate voters if they want a chance at beating the former president in the primary.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A NY Jury Says Trump Is a Sexual Abuser. Now What?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/a-new-york-jury-says-trump-is-a-sexual</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[E. Jean Carroll triumphed in her sexual assault case against the ex-president. But what does it mean for him'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and his election prospects? Alan Dershowitz, Lara Bazelon, and others weigh in.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comment Section Trolls Take Over the Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-section-trolls-took-over-101000217.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's the dilemma for GOP candidates: They have to win over the crowd having a conversation that the rest of the country finds too nasty to join.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Worst Elements on the Right Lose Their Megaphone]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-tucker-carlson-not-just-232021278.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Right-wing groups have shifted from Reaganism to "Tuckerism," thanks to the former TV host's populist fear-mongering.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Most Delicate Snowflake: The Fox News Viewer]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-meet-americas-most-delicate-111550139.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fox believed that protecting its brand as a safe space for the MAGA audience was more important than reporting the news.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine's Fight Benefits U.S. National Security]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-ukraines-fight-benefits-u-110150579.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not supplying these weapons earlier was actually provocative to Putin. That allowed him to wage a missile war on Ukrainian population centers in hopes of beating Ukraine into submission.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Was a Bad Year for Authoritarianism]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-bad-authoritarianism-110033952.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That's a good thing. The world needed to see the failures of regimes like Russia's and China's.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk Mistook Twitter for the Real World]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-elon-musk-mistook-110522342.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twitter was never a public square. It's like America now, where everyone wants every institution to confirm to their worldview.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-War Right's Misguided View of Putin]]></title>
							<link>https://thedispatch.com/p/the-anti-war-rights-misguided-view</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For many, he's simply an avatar for a wholesale critique of America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Paradox of Trump's Charisma]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-paradox-trumps-charisma-100012391.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Trump is at his most indefensible is precisely when the irrationality of his defenders becomes most intense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Emboldened by Fever Dreams of Persecution]]></title>
							<link>https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/yearning-for-a-banana-republic</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Emboldened by fever dreams of persecution, Republicans want nothing more than to anoint a strong man to punish their enemies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Last 2 Weeks, It's the GOP Now In Disarray]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-last-two-weeks-republicans-100051816.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You know why it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a cliche to say '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'X amount of time is a lifetime in politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'? Just look at how August is shaping up.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Just a few weeks ago,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' buzz'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' over of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the coming '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'red tsunami'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the midterms was'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' common. All of a sudden that sounds more like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[January 6 Hearings the Beginning of the End for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-last-week-beginning-end-100018662.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not like in the movies,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is good advice for almost any field or endeavor, from war to Wall Street. But perhaps nowhere is it more true than in politics.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cheney Is a Villain Because She's Telling the Truth]]></title>
							<link>https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/lying-liars-and-the-marks-who-love</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I know it may not seem like it, but I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m actually weirdly tolerant of wrongness. It may not always come across that way in my writing, but that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s because writing about and debating ideas is different from dealing with people. I kind of like wrong people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'i.e. people with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP May Rue the Day Roe Was Overturned]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-gop-may-rue-day-191353331.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans benefited from polarization on abortion both financially and electorally. In the post-Roe era, party unity on that issue is gone.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unforced Errors and the Mirage of Popularity]]></title>
							<link>https://thedispatch.com/p/unforced-errors-and-the-mirage-of</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For congressional Republicans, the election can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t come soon enough. In the modern era, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to think of a time when the party out of power had more things going its way. Harry Enten, CNN'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political data analyst,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' recently noted'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that going by the generic ballot,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How I Learned To Stop Worrying &amp; Love Jan. 6 Committee]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/jonah-goldberg-learned-stop-worrying-100013496.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even if Trump isn't criminally prosecuted, the hearings have created a space for GOP officials to say openly what they already knew: Trump lied about the election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Worship of Putin Is Repugnant--and Predictable]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-trumps-power-worship-putin-110559819.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Overlooked in the days since Trump's celebration of Putin's invasion of Ukraine is how wrong Trump was about the man he claims to know "very, very well."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Didn't Biden Stop Trump's Disastrous Withdrawal?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-withdrawal-afghanistan-signals-100007785.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The collapse of the Afghan government wasn't inevitable until the U.S. government and the foreign policy establishment made it inevitable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Nation Is Paying for Trump's Refusal to Be Presidential]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/trump-impeachment-presidents-failure-to-be-presidential-hurts-nation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's inability to act like a president has further exacerbated our political dysfunction.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Could Very Well Face a Primary Challenge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/trump-primary-challenge-many-republicans-would-welcome/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Polls show that many Republicans would welcome it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Character Will Be His Downfall]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/trump-character-will-be-his-downfall/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Character is destiny]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Odd Definition of 'America First']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/trump-defense-saudi-arabia-debases-america-first-rhetoric/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s defense of the Saudi regime debases the term.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Steward of the Responsible Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/national-review-stood-against-irresponsible-right-from-very-beginning/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the very beginning, NR has stood against the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'irresponsible Right.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[His Own Ego Explains Trump's Helsinki Fiasco]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/trump-putin-helsinki-fiasco-character-not-collusion-best-explanation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonah Goldberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Character, not collusion, best explains the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bizarre deference to Vladimir Putin.]]></description>
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