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							<title><![CDATA[The Founders Warned Americans About Men Like Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-founding-fathers-warned-americans-about-someone-like-trump/ar-AA26lCuc</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As our 80-year-old Mad King goes on midnight social media revenge benders from the White House, attacking the pope after attacking Iran, enriching his family by billions and comparing himself to Jesus, some of his supporters are now panicking and asking, "Who could have seen this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[War Is Peace: Trump's Regime-Change Reversal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/war-peace-trump-regime-change-005918090.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As American and Israeli rockets fly into Tehran, with the stated goal of regime change, anyone who bought into the self-evidently absurd idea of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Donald the Dove'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' ending America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s forever wars ought to be suffering from a bloody form of buyer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s remorse.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Year of Media Capture]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-year-of-media-capture/ar-AA1Tanyj</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This was the year when public broadcasting was gutted and hyper-partisans prospered, when the First Amendment was exhaustively praised and opportunistically abandoned. It was the year when media capture came to America.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Clinton Has the Answers for Dems in Despair]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bubba-has-the-answers-for-dems-in-despair-bill-clinton-dlc-centrist</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the party wants to regain power, it should look back to the message from Bill Clinton.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Bringing Back the Golden Rule to the Oval Office]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/24/opinions/joe-biden-golden-rule-white-house-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As practicing good faith in politics seems like a fool's errand these days, CNN's John Avlon writes that President-elect Joe Biden is bringing the Golden Rule back to the White House: to treat others as you would like to be treated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Trump vs. Democracy. Which Side Are You On?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/opinions/trump-vs-democracy-election-lawsuits-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that the Trump campaign's strategy of trying to stop the certification of votes is evidence of a deeper rot -- the elevation of hyper-partisan self-interest over the national interest. The fact that it is being pursued -- however fruitlessly -- by members of a party who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Just Said Our Democracy Is at Risk--From Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/opinions/democracy-at-risk-trump-peaceful-transfer-of-power-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that American democracy has been defined by the peaceful transfer of power. Donald Trump seems to have other ideas; at this point, it would be na'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¯').';'ve to think that Trump would accept the legitimacy of the election if he loses.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Suddenly Trump's Team Cares About Diversity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/27/opinions/rnc-diversity-trumps-record-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump will have put three times as many African Americans on stage at the RNC as he has appointed to his West Wing, Cabinet and US Attorney's offices...combined. It's a sign that the rhetoric doesn't remotely match the record, writes John Avlon.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Everything the Right Says It Hates About the Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/opinions/us-election-2020-trump-left-wing-foil-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that if Trump was a Democrat, Republicans would have found their perfect foil. Instead, they fell in line out of fear or love with the kind of cult of personality they once decried.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kanye West's Bizarre 'Campaign' Is Designed to Help Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/opinions/kanye-west-republican-operatives-2020-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that there are a handful of GOP operatives pushing Kanye West's helter-skelter campaign for president, all in an effort to make the rapper a spoiler for President Trump in select states with sizable Black populations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Tweet Shows a Frightened Narcissist Afraid of Losing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/opinions/trump-election-delay-question-tweet-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President's floating the idea of delaying the election -- something America has never done -- is designed to alarm people and distract from the worst quarterly GDP loss in recorded history on his watch, writes John Avlon. It's a dangerous, self-interested game: Trump is sowing the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Unhinged 'Treason' Accusation Against Obama Admin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/opinions/trump-treason-accusation-obama-opinion-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that when Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of treason it was the first time an American President had made such a charge against a predecessor. But while Trump and his team use the word promiscuously, it's clear they seem to fundamentally misunderstand its meaning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1918 Shows Why U.S. Businesses Need to Remain Closed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/opinions/denver-1918-lesson-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that just like now with Covid-19, during the 1918 flu pandemic, some local leaders, like then-Denver Mayor William Fitz Randolph Mills, caved into pressures to ignore social distancing and open up after protests, but it backfired.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Decency Makes Him the Real Opposite of Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/02/opinions/biden-is-trumps-contrast-not-sanders-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that it's easy to understand why some voters see Bernie Sanders as the ultimate contrast to Donald Trump, but in 2020's deeply polarized America, Joe Biden's old school ideals might provide the most compelling difference to the Trump presidency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Acquittal Is Not Exoneration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/opinions/trump-impeachment-acquitted-opinion-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the Trump White House's insistence that the President has been vindicated and exonerated by the Senate vote to not remove him from office, acquittal does not mean exoneration in an impeachment trial, writes John Avlon.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'King Trump' Defense Is Terrifying]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/opinions/the-king-trump-defense-is-terrifying-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a crime against the Constitution going on right underneath the chief justice's nose, writes John Avlon. Because any self-respecting institutionalist who has devoted his life to the defense of the Constitution and separation of powers should be able to recognize how dangerous and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dignity Isn't Dead in the Trump Era]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/17/opinions/donald-trump-era-dignity-not-dead-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that Marie Yovanovitch, Bill Taylor and George Kent are reminders that principled, non-partisan public service is part of what actually what makes America great.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[9/11 Unleashed Destructive Forces Like White Nationalist Terror]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/11/opinions/sept-11-2019-opinion-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To truly learn the lessons of 9/11 is to resolve not to let hate win or fear define us.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Epstein and Our Conspiracy Theorist-in-Chief]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/opinions/conspiracy-theorist-in-chief-trump-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A president who retweets nonsense, routinely lies and denies inconvenient reality is becoming normalized -- that is, if you adjust your expectations to a bizarro world where even senior national security officials view the commander in chief like a malevolent child, writes John Avlon....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Can't Lead the War Against White Supremacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/opinions/trump-el-paso-white-supremacy-violence-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that though President Trump made mention of the danger of white supremacy in his speech on Monday, he has a much longer history of fanning the flames of fanaticism and contributing to a climate of hate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NRA Has a Huge Mess on Its Hands]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/opinions/nra-has-a-huge-mess-on-its-hands-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that the National Rifle Association probably won't be able to spin its way out of a New York Attorney General's investigation. The organization has multiple challenges, including lawsuits, financial problems and internal conflicts]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Investigation Was No 'Witch Hunt']]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/25/opinions/mueller-investigation-not-witch-hunt-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Avlon writes that after many attacks and claims made by President Trump against Robert Mueller, Attorney General William Barr's summary proves the independence and integrity of the special counsel's investigation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Presidency Is What Real Culture of Corruption Looks Like]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/opinions/trump-swamp-convictions-since-nixon-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Drain the swamp" was a popular chant at Trump rallies in 2016, ranking second only to the cries of "Lock Her Up" that still persist as a greatest hit at his presidential arena tours.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's McCarthyism Charge Is Deeply Ironic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/20/opinions/trump-mccarthy-parallel-history-lessons-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've seen plenty of Trump critics -- most recently Admiral William McRaven -- call out what they see as the President's "McCarthy-era tactics." But in a classic Trump deflect-and-project move, the President is now comparing the tight-lipped Republican leading the special counsel...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump Is No Longer the Leader of Free World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/opinions/trump-helsinki-no-longer-free-world-leader-avlon/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the Second World War -- spanning 14 US presidents, Republican and Democratic -- the occupant of the Oval Office has been referred to as "the leader of the free world." Until now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Celebrate Our Checks and Balances in the Era of Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-to-be-patriotic-in-the-era-of-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like many grandchildren of immigrants, I was brought up with a special reverence for America. Our country was not to be taken for granted'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it was not like all the others.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise of Republicans for Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/12/the-republican-resistance-to-trump-and-the-rise-of-republicans-for-clinton.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Republicans, the primary may be over but this is still a time for choosing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' On Thursday, Donald Trump trotted up to Capital Hill to meet with Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP leadership to try and assure them that he is not an electoral neutron bomb.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Mutual hatred toward Hillary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party's Crump Cancer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/03/the-gop-s-crump-cancer.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When asked to assess the presidential prospects of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Sen. Lindsey Graham famously said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s like being shot or poisoned. I think you get the same result, whether it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s quick or takes a long time.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'Republicans breathing a sigh of relief because...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Has No Clear Path to 1144 Delegates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/07/no-clear-path-to-victory-for-romney.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's far from over. Despite claiming six state wins last night and upping his delegate count to 404, Mitt Romney still does not have a lock on the nomination"'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or even a clear path to claiming it if his opponents don't leave the field.Consider this: if Mitt wins every remaining...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Ship Is Sinking]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/30/john-avlon-mitt-romney-s-campaign-is-becoming-a-sinking-ship.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Avlon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The horses are getting spooked in the Romney camp.His poll numbers are plummeting in state after state, while Newt Gingrich is soaring across the board.]]></description>
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