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<title><![CDATA[Leonard Pitts - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15133.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Leonard Pitts]]></description><category domain="15133">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[When Is a Hate Crime Not a Hate Crime?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article269121952.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson and his ilk in the media have hardly been reticent about rank anti-LGBTQ propaganda, Leonard Pitts Jr. says.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk Breaks His New Toy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/11/23/leonard-pitts-elon-musk-breaks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s richest child bought Twitter and didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have a clue what to do with it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Is Captain Florida, the Super Opportunist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/08/31/gov-desantis-is-now-captain-florida-the-super-opportunist-column/?outputType=amp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The superhero's super motto? 'With great power comes great opportunism.']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Merrick Garland: Hurry Up and Indict Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leonard-pitts-jr-the-rule-of-law-could-use-a-win/ar-AAZUl1h?cvid=793f377ec5a846d891508ca6bad92c15</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fascism Is on Our Doorstep]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/07/13/fascism-is-on-our-doorstep-column/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With all the threats facing our democracy, does it really matter that Joe Biden is old?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Nothing Wrong With Being &lsquo;Woke']]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/05/08/leonard-pitts-left-needs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s talk about That Word. Meaning the word the political left was using to define itself until the political right got hold of it and made it an object of ridicule. The word that quickly became unusable, even faintly embarrassing. No, the word is not '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'woke.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Right Wing Creates God in Its Own Image]]></title>
							<link>https://madison.com/opinion/column/leonard-pitts-jr-right-wing-creates-god-in-its-own-image/article_b5172dec-a98b-5f24-88ed-08bb6ceb9610.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, Right Wing Watch, the liberal watchdog group, flagged online video of a recent interview with U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by one Michael Voris of Church Militant, a far-right Catholic organization. In it, the Republican congresswoman, whose website touts her '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'strong...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Own the High Moral Ground, Must Defend It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article260637537.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She was just trying to defend herself. It seems a Republican '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'colleague'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' had slimed Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow in one of those ad hominem, free-of-facts, detached-from-reality, what-the-heck-are-you-even-talking-about attacks that have unfortunately become a staple of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Haunted by Jan. 6, Biden Seeks to Revive Nation of Laws]]></title>
							<link>https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2022/01/09/opinion-biden-seeks-revive-nation-laws/9129828002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden seeks to reaffirm aspirations Americans once took for granted.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[January 6 Was Dress Rehearsal For Something Far Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/01/05/jan-6-insurrection-was-a-dress-rehearsal-for-something-far-worse-column/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Do you know who's had their votes stolen? Actually, really stolen?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Flash Mob Looting: The Social Covenant Has Shattered]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/12/01/with-flash-mob-looting-at-nordstrom-the-social-covenant-has-shattered-column/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You stop at the red light even when the street is deserted. And, oh yes, you don't join a mob to ransack a store.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rittenhouse Was Presumed Innocent. Must Be Nice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article255970587.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They gave him the benefit of the doubt. Kyle Rittenhouse armed himself with a war weapon and went into an uprising to protect property he didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t own in a place he didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t live. He shot and killed an unarmed man who he said threatened him and tried to take his gun. He shot and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good Riddance to Anti-Mandate Cops in NYC]]></title>
							<link>https://madison.com/wsj/opinion/column/leonard-pitts-jr-good-riddance-to-34-new-york-city-cops/article_d728d2cb-64bb-5688-9bd4-dd6bf0e9c979.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was reported last week that 34 New York City police officers took unpaid leave rather than comply with that city's vaccine mandate. For this, New Yorkers should thank them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kids Can Handle America's Racist History. Why Can't Adults?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/11/03/the-kids-can-handle-americas-real-history-why-cant-adults-column/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not to idealize young people, but I suspect they have no need or desire of being treated like hothouse flowers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Supporters Are Un-American &amp; Not My People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/10/20/my-people-are-americans-column/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I, Leonard Pitts, venerate the ideals on which this country was founded.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now As On 9/11, Those Falling From Sky Have Names]]></title>
							<link>https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2021/08/22/afghans-fall-from-transport-planes/8218679002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, at least two men fell from a U.S. military plane as it climbed into the skies above Afghanistan.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unvaccinated a Menace to Society, Time to Play Tough]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article253116738.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We were almost there.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Like Lincoln After Civil War, Dems Must Forge New Nation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2021/07/24/democrats-voting-rights-filibuster/8069677002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Memo to Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema: Your'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' friend would not be pleased with you. Meaning John Lewis, the Georgia congressman and civil rights titan who died last year of pancreatic cancer. You marked the anniversary of his passing over the weekend with a spectacularly hypocritical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Right to Bear Arms Doesn't Extend to Black People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/06/20/the-right-to-bear-arms-does-not-extend-to-black-people-column/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Protecting Black people's humanity has always come in second to other concerns deemed more vital.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Specializes In Not Knowing About Black History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/06/02/where-black-history-is-concerned-america-specializes-in-not-knowing-column/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Take it as evidence of God's puckish humor that even as we commemorate the Tulsa Race Massacre, Republican-led states are rushing to pass laws restricting the teaching of this history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cheney Stands Up to Mutiny, Mendacity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/liz-cheney-stands-up-to-mutiny-mendacity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We keep hitting new lows. So perhaps we ought not be surprised that the GOP, the party that brought us the insurrection of Jan. 6, now presents the public, if figurative, execution of Liz Cheney. At this writing, she is not yet politically dead, but the vultures are certainly tying their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Love Our Children. Unfortunately, We Love Guns More]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/04/28/weve-failed-our-children-column/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We owe you an apology. Meaning all of us in the generations above you. We had one job where you were concerned, and that was to keep you safe. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Save the children,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' pleaded a man named Marvin Gaye a long time ago. But we didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t. We failed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chauvin Trial Can't Vindicate America Of Its Racism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Pitts-Chauvin-trial-cannot-vindicate-America-16086447.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's not fool ourselves into thinking a conviction would prove a just America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black GOP Senator Acts as Human Shield for White Supremacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2021/03/14/leonard-pitts-senator/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leonard Pitts writes that one Black Republican in the Senate does not cover up generations of white supremacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dr. Seuss Has Not Been 'Canceled']]></title>
							<link>https://madison.com/wsj/opinion/column/leonard-pitts-jr-dr-seuss-has-not-been-canceled/article_6abbdf68-be1e-5922-9ca2-5eabe5331348.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Granted, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d never know it from the ruckus that erupted after Theodor Seuss Geisel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s estate decided to stop publishing six lesser-known titles by the celebrated children'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s book author because they contained offensive racial stereotypes. We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re talking Asians with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Decent People Can't 'Unite' With Racism and Homophobia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/01/24/there-is-no-way-for-decent-people-to-unite-with-racism-anti-semitism-or-homophobia-column/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America will not be saved at the expense of those who have too often been shut out of the. nation's lofty ideals, writes Leonard Pitts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Soul of America Is Being Sacrificed to White Racism]]></title>
							<link>https://madison.com/wsj/opinion/column/leonard-pitts-jr-how-many-people-would-choose-whiteness-over-democracy/article_92ab1fef-4c9e-5156-9651-1f26e673e446.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Reminder of How Much It Took to Make America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article242899311.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gateway to the summer, to beaches, beer and barbecue, yes. But gateway, too, to reminders of all that was given, taken, lost, to make America. And is it fanciful to think maybe the reminder is needed more this year than in many years past? Perhaps. After all, previous generations have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Must Stay Closed--I Will Not Die of Stupid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2020/04/29/coronavirus-reopening-economy/3046808001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tapping the we the U.S. Strategic Stupid Reserve for advice on when to reopen states]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton Was Right About Those 'Deplorables']]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/02/02/leonard-pitts-hillary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leonard Pitts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Surely you remember the basket of deplorables.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' That was Hillary Clinton's 2016 characterization of some Donald Trump supporters. Observers saw it as a major gaffe, and conservatives erupted in hot, "How dare you!" indignation at the idea there was anything deplorable about voting for a...]]></description>
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