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<title><![CDATA[William Kristol - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14533.xml</link><description><![CDATA[William Kristol]]></description><category domain="14533">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Arrogance of a Kennedy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-arrogance-of-a-kennedy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RFK Jr.'s testimony on Thursday was filled with quackery and confrontation. But it was defined by egotism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Public Is Resisting Trump. The Elites Aren't]]></title>
							<link>https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/the-public-is-resisting-trump-the-elites-are-not-polling-deportations-big-beautiful-bill?r=dfbm&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president is encountering little resistance as he remakes our society. And yet polling is clear that voters aren't with him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Can Capitalize on the Musk-Trump Catfight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-democrats-can-capitalize-on-musk-trump-catfight-hissy-fit-battle</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Plus, why Trump is poised to win this battle'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'decisively.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Federalist Society Types Causing Trouble for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-trump-attacks-on-his-judges-will-backfire-federalist-society-conservative-leonard-leo</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president targets the one conservative institution that can still punch back.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Did This to Ourselves]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-did-this-to-ourselves</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The crisis we face is the product of our choices.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Was a Defeat. It Was a Bad Defeat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/no-honeymoon-for-trumpism</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Those opposed to the president-elect must start their work during his transition, not after he's inaugurated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Cracks Open the Door]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/biden-cracks-open-the-door</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Nancy Pelosi reportedly urged other congressional Democrats to share their concerns about President Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ability to win in November privately with the White House or Biden campaign, or at least to wait until after the end of the NATO summit to make public statements....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After the Trial, Can Biden Capitalize?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/after-the-trial-can-biden-capitalize</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Plus: Meet the MAGA establishment, same as the old establishment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mike Johnson, Coalition Speaker]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-neutering-of-the-gop-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Plus: If the Democrats are fer it, we're agin it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sadly, Putin Has Had a Pretty Good Century So Far]]></title>
							<link>https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/vladimir-putin-century-russia</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sadly, Russia's dictator has had a pretty good century so far.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Month When Decades Happen]]></title>
							<link>https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/a-month-when-decades-happen</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like another October fifty years ago, this month's events will shape politics at home and abroad.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Must Give Ukraine What It Needs for Victory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/the-ukraine-war-has-transformed-europe-for-good/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The notion of a Zeitenwende'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a major turning point'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is not just German anymore. Putin's war has become a Zeitenwende for all Europe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Both Defend and Reform Our Democracy?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/who-will-both-defend-and-reform-our-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am, I suppose, a member in good standing of the seemingly large and certainly vocal community of well-wishers to the Democratic party who spend a lot of time lamenting its shortcomings.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Forest and the Trees]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/the-forest-and-the-trees/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The January 6th Committee hearings have already been full of fascinating tidbits and mini-dramas. As novelists and dramatists have known for a long time, criminal conspiracies often feature colorful characters and memorable moments. But in the midst of the color and the drama, it's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Period of Consequences: It's 1936 Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/a-new-period-of-consequences/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In June of 2010, Jamie Fly and I wrote a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' piece'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Weekly Standard.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' We called it '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'A Period of Consequences.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' We took the title from a couple of sentences from a Winston Churchill speech:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of 'America First'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/the-end-of-america-first/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even after an aggressor's character and intentions are clear, lots of Republicans will be proud to say we don't care.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for NeverTrump to Ally With Biden, Schumer &amp; Pelosi?]]></title>
							<link>https://thebulwark.com/what-about-joe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why can't anti-Trump become work-with-Biden?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Republican Party a Lost Cause?]]></title>
							<link>https://thebulwark.com/can-the-republican-party-be-saved/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the Republican Party a lost cause? Let me be definitive and unequivocal: I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know. On the one hand, with embarrassingly few exceptions at every level, the Republican party is Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s party. So in many ways it deserves...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 2020 Fate With Republicans Is Up in the Air]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/william-kristol/november-7-2018</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
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							<title><![CDATA['The Silent Artillery of Time']]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-silent-artillery-of-time/article/2011652</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a short, powerful piece in National Review, Rick Brookhiser concludes that the conservative movement is no more. Its destroyers are Donald Trump and his admirers.Looking around me in early 2018, I can't disagree. This is cause for lament, and lament Brookhiser does, as I do. But in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Single Best Thing for Country Would Be for Trump to Resign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/wouldnt-it-be-nice/article/2009404</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It would be nice, in a way, to be a progressive. You'd be confident you know the direction History is moving. And you'd have faith that the direction in which History is moving is the direction in which History should be moving.So you'd think of politics as a drive along a highway to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Generation Trump?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/generation-trump/article/2008242</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a cover story in this magazine almost a decade ago, the late Dean Barnett hailed the 9/11 generation and held out the hope'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??nay, the expectation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??that they would contribute more to the nation than their parents, the baby boomers:In the 1960s, history called the Baby Boomers....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is an Embarrassment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/a-sense-of-responsibility/article/2008024</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is an embarrassment. It would be better for the country if he were president for at most one term. It would be desirable that his manner of governing go down in history as an aberration; that his form of conservatism be judged a detour from the broad path of a mostly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remember Henry Clay]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/remember-henry-clay/article/2006959</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When your mind runs over the history of the Grand Old Party, you think of the presidents first. You think of Abraham Lincoln and are proud to be in some way associated with a political party whose first president was our greatest. You recall Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Party of Liberty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-party-of-liberty/article/2005892</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[#NeverTrump: A Final Word]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/never-trump-a-final-word/article/2005275</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you'll permit me a personal note on Election Eve (and if you won't permit it, feel free to stop reading now!):I've had 30 lucky years in Washington. I was lucky to have been able to serve in a small role in the second term of the Reagan Administration. I was lucky to have been able to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Populist-Nationalist Right? No Thanks!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/a-populist-nationalist-right-no-thanks/article/2005115</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Patrick J. Buchanan, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, wrote recently and approvingly that Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s campaign embodies the populist-nationalist right that is moving beyond the niceties of liberal democracy.To which we say: No thanks.Don't get us wrong. We're sympathetic to an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump: The Loser]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-loser/article/2004996</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The two major party conventions, the three presidential debates, and various scandals large and small'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??all these features of the 2016 presidential general election have come and gone. Now the campaign draws to a close. And one outcome seems increasingly likely: Donald J. Trump will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump a Sufferable Evil?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/is-trump-a-sufferable-evil/article/2004796</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The emergence Friday of the disgusting Trump tape was a gift to the Republican party. It provided an occasion, at the very last minute, for the party to dump a fundamentally unworthy and radically unfit nominee. At the very least it provided an occasion for the party to separate itself...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dump Trump, Now More Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/dump-trump-now-more-than-ever/article/2004782</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Kristol</author>
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