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<title><![CDATA[Peter Wehner - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14479.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Peter Wehner]]></description><category domain="14479">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Institutional Arsonist Turns On His Own Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-institutional-arsonist-turns-on-his-own-party/ar-AA178uQ0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump threatens to use his core skills'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'peddling conspiracy theories, spreading lies, sowing distrust'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'against the GOP.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukrainians Are Shaking America Out of Its Cynicism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainians-are-shaking-america-out-of-its-cynicism/ar-AAUwg8l</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The human virtues being displayed in a terrible human drama have changed public opinion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's a Blessing to Bear Your Friend's Burden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/when-michael-gerson-shared-his-story-depression/583780/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sharing in someone else'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sorrow is an opportunity to dispense generosity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's Capital Is Recognizing Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/12/14/recognizing_jerusalem_as_israels_capital_is_recognizing_reality_135784.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been quite critical of Donald Trump, in part because of his sustained attacks on reality. But in the case of his decision last week to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the president did the opposite: He recognized reality, even as his critics insist that we inhabit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Must Make Clean Break From 'Child King' Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/opinion/sunday/trump-our-child-king.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans need to start thinking of themselves as a shadow government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Battle for the Soul of Conservatism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/02/26/the_battle_for_the_soul_of_conservatism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the concerns those of us who are conservative had about the right rallying around Donald Trump is that he would have a degrading effect on conservatism itself. It hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t taken much time for those concerns to be realized.
One recent example: In an interview broadcast just...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Attack on Israel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/12/28/obamas_attack_on_israel_132657.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That Barack Obama would exit his presidency with one final betrayal of Israel is a shameful act by the most relentlessly anti-Israeli president in American history.
The particular form this betrayal took was the United States not only abstaining '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' from voting on an anti-Israeli U.N....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is There Life After Trump?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/campaign-stops/is-there-life-after-trump.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With only hours left before Election Day, here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the painful, self-evident truth facing lifelong Republicans like me: The 2016 presidential campaign has revealed dark and disturbing things about not only Donald J. Trump but also the party that nominated him. Self-renewal starts...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future of the Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441320/republican-party-after-donald-trump-questions-rebuilding</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is much discussion among Republicans, and particularly for those of us who have long counted ourselves as Never Trump, about the future of the Republican party once Donald Trump is defeated on November 8, as many of us expect he will be. Sometimes the best way to think things...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Comprehensive Case Against Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/11/the_comprehensive_case_against_donald_trump_131748.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The strongest case to make for conservatives supporting Donald Trump is a modest one. It goes like this: He is a deeply flawed man who is running against someone who is even more deeply flawed. Hillary Clinton is a person with liberal instincts who has been pulled further to the left in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Indelible Stain of Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/opinion/campaign-stops/the-indelible-stain-of-donald-trump.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s politically lethal embrace of Donald J. Trump is very nearly complete.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In endorsing Mr. Trump earlier this month, Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, stipulated that while he and Mr. Trump have their differences, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'we have more common ground than...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unity Isn't a Trump Card]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/unity-isnt-trump-card/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the effort to rally Republicans around the Donald Trump candidacy, one often hears two arguments invoked. One is that those who oppose Mr. Trump need to focus on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'unity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' now that he is the presumptive nominee; a second is that the anti-Trump forces need to respect the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Aggressive Ignorance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/17/donald_trumps_aggressive_ignorance_130575.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A recent story'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in Politico reported the following: 

A source familiar with [Donald] Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s thinking explained that the billionaire businessman was reluctant to add new layers of policy experts now, feeling it would only muddy his populist message that has been hyper-focused on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Supporters Are Wrong, Not Evil]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/13/trump_supporters_are_wrong_not_evil_130550.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a lot of people who have been more anti-Trump than I have been for as long as I have been. I first wrote critically of Trump in 2011, because of his birther nonsense, and back in January I declared that I would not vote for him under any circumstances.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
His actions...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Republicans Shouldn't Fight Dirty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/why-we-shouldnt-fight-dirty-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[45shares'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' A'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' If you want an insight into the mindset of a good number of Donald Trump supporters, you simply need to listen to them. And you could hardly do better than to take in the words'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of a longtime Rush Limbaugh listener, Sean in Philadelphia, who called Limbaugh a few days...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party's Suicide March]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/gops-suicide-march/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If Donald Trump secures the Republican presidential nomination, he would start the general election campaign as the least-popular candidate to represent either party in modern times.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'So declared the Washington Post in this story, which cites the following finding from a new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Party of Reagan Is No More]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4253747/the-party-of-reagan-is-no-more/?xid=homepage&amp;pcd=hp-magmod</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the death on March 6 of a dignified First Lady'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'an influential cultural figure in her own right and the devoted keeper of her husband'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s flame'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'both Ronald and Nancy Reagan have now passed into history. Increasingly, it appears, the same can be said of the party they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pope's Theological Error]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/culture-civilization/religion/pope-francis-theological-error/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I like Pope Francis a lot more than I like Donald Trump '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but I agree with Jonathan, who wrote that the Pope'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s comments aimed at Trump '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump The Unhinged]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/doanald-trump-iraq-war-unhinged/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Saturday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican debate, Donald Trump, in discussing the Iraq war, accused President George W. Bush and his administration of lying to get the United States into the Iraq war.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You call it whatever you want. I wanna tell you. They lied,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' according to Trump....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Delusions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/barack-obama-delusions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his year-end interview with National Public Radio, President Obama continued to argue that the threat posed to us and our allies by the Islamic State is exaggerated, amplified by the media and that the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strategy is pretty much perfect.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The truth is that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Has Worsened Race Relations]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/obama-worsened-race-relations/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost seven years ago, writing at the dawn of the age of Obama, I made four predictions, the first of which was this:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' While Obama is riding high, race relations will be excellent. But once Obama goes down in the polls and he does things that elicit criticism, be prepared for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Slanders America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/19/trump_slanders_america_129097.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump was asked about the praise he received from Russia's brutal dictator, Vladimir Putin. Trump praised Putin in return ("at least he's a leader"). And when Joe Scarborough pointed out some of the Putin's nastier habits -- killing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz Isn't Telling the Truth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/ted-cruz-telling-the-truth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz has a problem with the truth.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' This became evident in Tuesday night'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s debate, during an exchange with Marco Rubio over illegal immigration. Senator Cruz, in hoping to solidify conservative support, hammered Senator Rubio on his role in the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Gang of Eight'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Closing of Barack Obama's Mind]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/the-closing-of-barack-obamas-mind/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you want to witness'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' an adamantine mind at work, you could do a whole lot worse that observe the 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama is the most rigidly ideological president of my lifetime, a man who has a nearly blind adherent to a particular ideology (progressivism)....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Hypocrisy on Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/opinion/president-obamas-hypocrisy-on-syria.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency promising that he would heal our political divisions. Instead, Mr. Obama has been as polarizing as any president in the history of modern polling. The debate over the Syrian refugee crisis illustrates why.The civil war in Syria has created one of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Has Wrecked His Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/republican-party-obama-wrecked-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In their 2012 book,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Even Worse Than it Looks, the political scientists Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein wrote, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' But in a Bloomberg interview'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' earlier this week with Francis Wilkinson, Ornstein recounts a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Disgraceful Demagoguery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/barack-obamas-disgraceful-demagoguery-mass-shooting-gun-control/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his comments last evening on the mass killing at Oregon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Umpqua Community College, President Barack Obama declared we should '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'politicize'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the shooting.The president achieved his goal.Just hours after the horrible event, before many of the key facts were even known, Mr....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Clinton Finished?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/08/19/is-hillary-clinton-finished/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Intellectual Dishonesty of John Roberts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/06/28/the-intellectual-dishonesty-of-john-roberts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Welcome Tipping Point for Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/06/24/republican-confederate-flag-debate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Wehner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As everyone knows by now, in the wake of the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina lasted week, allegedly perpetrated by a racist, Dylann Roof, there have been renewed calls to remove the Confederate flag from state grounds.]]></description>
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