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<title><![CDATA[John O&apos;Sullivan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16188.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John O&apos;Sullivan]]></description><category domain="16188">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Life After Brexit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/life-after-brexit/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's the end of one of the most hard-fought struggles that has ever roiled the British political system.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Realignment Election in the U.K.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/a-realignment-election-in-the-u-k/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pro-Brexit vote in U.K. politics turned out to be as steady as the guards at Waterloo.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tories Lead Way With 3 Weeks Until Brexit Vote]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/brexit-ho/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If repeated on Election Day, current polling results would produce a solid Tory majority of about between 40 and 60 seats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Boris Johnson Strike a Deal with Nigel Farage?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/will-boris-johnson-strike-a-deal-with-nigel-farage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If he doesn't, the Tories could be in trouble in the coming election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boris Johnson Passes First Test by Ditching the Remainers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/boris-in-power/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Boris Johnson reshuffling his cabinet is an extraordinarily bold, even ruthless, move.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brexit Party Poses an Existential Threat to the Tories]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/brexit-party-poses-an-existential-threat-to-the-tories/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Theresa May is probably on the way out, but the European parliamentary elections suggest a bigger threat is on the horizon for the Conservative party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Brexit Fails, So Does Britain]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brexit-debate-british-independence/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What's at stake is not physical annihilation of the Brits but absorption of their self-governing democracy into an undemocratic European empire called the EU.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Pope a Catholic?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/pope-francis-catholic-church-sex-abuse-scandal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Francis himself is accused of participating in the cover-up of abuse by priests.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hungary Embraces National Conservatism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/hungary-embraces-national-conservatism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Viktor Orban'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory is a serious challenge for the Eurocracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reckoning With Communism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453075/communism-russian-revolution-terrible-cost</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the run-up to Theresa May's speech on Brexit in Florence, there was one of those minor kerfuffles that tell us in passing some odd little truth about the modern world and how we are governed. It began as a standard political correspondent's report of a change in Whitehall and its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Populism Not a Threat to Democracy, But a Salve]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452673/populist-party-strength-helps-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: The following is adapted from the Menzies Research Centre's sixth John Howard Lecture, delivered by John O'Sullivan on August 22, 2017. It appears here with permission. Politics was once defined by Left and Right, or labor and capital. Now the divide is between the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Defends the West in Warsaw]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449328/trumps-poland-speech-provocative-and-ringing-defense-west</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By any conventional standard of rhetorical criticism, President Trump's speech in Poland was a great success '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' even a triumph or smash hit. It received a genuinely enthusiastic reception from its audience of Polish political notables. That's not a small matter; a cheering crowd...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tories Reclaim Support Among Patriotic Working Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447390/united-kindgom-local-election-results-2017-tories-labour-ukip-liberal-democrats-brexit-theresa-may</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday's local elections in Britain look somewhat less dramatic than people were expecting in the light of national opinion polls showing Theresa May's Tories literally twice as popular as the Labour Opposition. The BBC summary was : Tories gain eleven councils and 563 seats; Labour...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remembering Kate O'Beirne]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446987/kate-obeirne-rip</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the late Robert Bork was received into the Catholic Church only a few years ago, his two godparents were Kate O'Beirne and me. He was amused enough by this to say to Kate that he felt that he was becoming an Irish Catholic rather than a Roman Catholic. Beware the sin of pride, Bob,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Return of American Nationalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442306/donald-trumps-win-american-nationalism-returns</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s election is above all else a rebellion of the voters against identity politics enforced by political correctness, and it opens the way to a new politics of moderate levels of immigration, patriotic assimilation, and, in foreign policy, the defense of U.S....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Germany Can Do Better Than Angela Merkel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440364/angela-merkel-legacy-incompetent-leadership-germany-europe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??The graveyards are full of indispensable men,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? said De Gaulle, or his predecessor Georges Clemenceau, or New York publisher Elbert Hubbard, or one of several other less famous people with a good turn of phrase, according to the scrupulously careful online Quote Investigator....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Pulling Ahead After Best Week of His Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440132/donald-trump-pulling-ahead-hillary-clinton</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I wrote an analysis of the presidential race for the Australian newspaper. The polls still showed Hillary Clinton far ahead, but the race had begun to tighten. The smart money should still be placed on Clinton, I argued, but that could soon change: 2016 now looked as if it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brexit: Mrs. Thatcher's Last Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439452/margaret-thatchers-brexit-victory-years-ahead-curve</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the sideshows of the Brexit campaign was a debate on the question of whether Margaret Thatcher would have supported Leave or Remain. It was a debate carried on largely by people who either knew her as a parliamentary colleague or worked for her in one arena or another, and it was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Working-Class Trump Supporters School the Policy Wonks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435943/conservatives-republican-party-donald-trump-nationalists-intellectuals-working-class</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I seem to have been writing articles about conservatism all my life. Not quite, but almost. The first such article for which I was paid appeared in print in 1969 in the Swinton Journal (which, not at all coincidentally, was the first magazine I ever edited.) The article had the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If We Can't Have Cruz, Trump Preferable to Rubio]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431951/donald-trump-gop-future</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump has problems, but he is invigorating the GOP, and he's better than Rubio.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drawing the Right Lessons' From the Trump Insurgency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wsj.com/articles/election-2016-the-life-of-the-party-1454092034</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans need to draw the right lessons from the Trump insurgency. And Democrats should take note.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europeans Studiously Ignore Muslim Mobs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429432/muslim-mobs-rape-europe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I read a thought-provoking science-fiction short story about a sociologist who specialized in the important field of bureaucratic expansionism. I can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t recall the story'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s title, and I haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t found the story on the Web, but a colleague better schooled in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Populist Parties Are Rising Around the Globe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429144/conservative-party-failures-populist-alternatives</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political realignments are long in gestation, face huge obstacles to their achievement, and are easy to divert or subvert. All mainstream parties have needed to do is offer some modest concessions to the forces of discontent and they dissipate. Ross Perot'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s support evaporated when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Offense: The New Threats to Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/articles/no-offense-the-new-threats-to-free-speech-1414783663</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Earthquake in the U.K.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378800/ukip-rising-united-kingdom-john-osullivan</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s local elections were hailed as heralding a new four-party electoral system in Britain. This verdict was put beyond question last night when UKIP '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the United Kingdom Independence Party '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' emerged in the European elections as the largest single party in terms of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Nationalism]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303802104579451504265877512?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories&amp;mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303802104579451504265877512.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_hp_RightTopStories</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Incessant "antifascist" propaganda from Moscow, baseless claims of attacks against Russians in Ukraine, incitement of Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine, Russian troops without insignia seizing official buildings in Crimea, a stage-managed illegal plebiscite there and then its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Dems Seek &quot;Cover&quot; on Immigration Bill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354776/what-about-workers-john-osullivan</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a letter to fellow-Republicans on the Hill today, Senator Jeff Sessions declares with admirable straightforwardness that the GOP establishment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s main argument for the Gang of Eight immigration bill '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the great lesson of the 2012 election is that the GOP needs to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Communists' Political War Against Berlusconi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354796/end-silvio-john-osullivan</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi may be a rascal, but not even rascals deserve to be railroaded. As I write, we still don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know the verdict of Italy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Supreme Court on the charge of tax evasion leveled against him and his company Mediaset. It was expected earlier today (Tuesday) but it may...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Party's Just Starting for McCain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/02/do0205.xml</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John O&apos;Sullivan</author>
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