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<title><![CDATA[Robert Merry - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20250.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Merry]]></description><category domain="20250">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Wouldn't America Talk About the Lab Leak?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-wouldnt-america-talk-about-the-lab-leak/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the world stage, the U.S. prioritizes inoffensiveness above all else. That doesn't bode well for our mounting rivalry with China.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After 4 Years of Trump, the Republic Still Stands]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/after-four-years-of-trump-the-republic-still-stands/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's critics repeatedly warned that he would destroy the republic. Their claims failed to materialize.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Critical Race Theory Two-Step]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/bidens-critical-race-theory-two-step/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not just about sensitivity, it's a momentous event in American public life]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Trump Loses, 'Deplorables' Will Be the Democrats' First Target]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/after-trump-loss-deplorables-will-be-the-democrats-first-target/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Blame the president for leaving his core supporters at the mercy of the opposition's cultural and economic revolution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Roberts Isn't Conservative, What Is He, Exactly?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/if-john-roberts-isnt-a-conservative-what-is-he-exactly/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The DACA ruling reveals the chief justice's willingness to trifle with the Constitution to serve his own ends, whatever they may be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is America Really 'Systemically Racist?']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-is-systemic-racism-really/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Feels like another power grab designed to humiliate white middle and working class 'deplorables' already hunkered down and defensive.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Presidential Purges]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/in-defense-of-presidential-purges/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In their zeal to cast Trump as a tyrant, Democrats and compliant media get constitutional authorities all wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Americans Finally Revolt Against the 'Expert Class'?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/will-pandemic-finally-unleash-the-american-populist-revolution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's difficult to imagine a more disruptive political force converging upon a more vulnerable status quo.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seattle's Liberal Reckoning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/seattles-liberal-reckoning/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks to its far-left mindset, violent crime and homelessness are increasingly running rampant here.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another One Bites the Dust of 'Cultural Appropriation']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/another-one-bites-the-dust-of-cultural-appropriation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Author Jeanine Cummins finds out the hard way that she's not Latina enough to write novels about Mexican women.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Johnson &amp; Conservative Populism's Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/at-the-vanguard-of-the-anti-globalism-revolution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gadflies like Boris Johnson are giving voice to communities torn asunder by neoliberalism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Establishment's Ukraine Policy Is a Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/impeaching-trump-and-demonizing-russia-birds-of-a-feather/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The elites who want Trump gone keep mouthing all the usual falsehoods about Ukraine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Investigations: A New Kind of McCarthyism?]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-explains-ferocity-attack-against-donald-trump-62547</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Standards of evidence have gone out the window when it comes to attacking President Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Complicated History of Attorneys General]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-bill-barr-the-presidents-lawyer-its-complicated/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia-gate partisans want you to think the attorney general is completely independent from Trump. History is not so clear.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Just Because Dems Are Lurching Left Doesn't Mean They'll Lose]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-coming-socialist-president/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lately we have seen numerous conservative commentators posit the thesis that the Democrats are disqualifying themselves from a 2020 presidential victory by lurching too far left on key economic and social issues.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NATO Is a Danger, Not a Guarantor of Peace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nato-is-a-danger-not-a-guarantor-of-peace/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Status quo supporters like the New York Times poke fun at Trump for questioning the alliance. But who's the fool?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush's Outsized Legacy]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/george-h-w-bushs-outsized-legacy-37782</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American people made him a one-term president, but his legacy lives on.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How World War I Shaped America]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/how-world-war-i-shaped-america-35682</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a long history behind America's decision to start and end one of the country's greatest wars.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happens When the Caravan Gets Here?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-happens-when-the-caravan-gets-here/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not just a practical problem, but an existential one. Are we ready for it?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Left Gave Us Today's Foreign Policy Mess]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-perils-of-our-liberal-hegemony/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Mearsheimer's latest book explores how the progressive left gave us today's foreign policy mess.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump's Ratings Won't Budge: The Fight Is Bigger Than Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-trumps-approval-numbers-wont-budge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite a horrible week he's still polling relatively high. That's because this fight is bigger than just him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The West Cannibalizes Itself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-west-cannibalizes-itself/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What civilization has ever sought to repudiate its own culture and traditions as we do today?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Tumultuous History With Tariffs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americas-tumultuous-history-with-tariffs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From McKinley to Reagan, Donald Trump has plenty of precedent if he's looking for it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia's Election Meddling: Worse Than a Crime; a Blunder]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/russias-election-meddling-worse-than-a-crime-a-blunder/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S.-Russian hostility is now inevitable, and the results could be tragic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Nunes Memo &amp; the Death of Journalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-nunes-memo-and-the-death-of-american-journalism-newyorktimes-savage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember when reporters spent their time digging for answers rather than advancing their favored political narratives?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Europe Built a Funeral Pyre, Then Leapt In]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-europe-built-its-own-funeral-pyre-then-leapt-in/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mass immigration, guilt and a continent on the brink of 'societal catastrophe.']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Status Quo Under Challenge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/us-foreign-policy-status-quo-under-challenge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the year 2018 going to be a seminal year for America, like 1941, 1974, 1989, or 2001? When one looks at the inherent instability of the world and of American politics at the dawn of this new year, it seems that big events could occur in 2018. The status quo, both domestic and global,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Threw Down Gauntlet on Western Civilization]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trumps-warsaw-speech-threw-down-the-gauntlet-on-western-civilization/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is America just 'an idea'?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Krauthammer, DC Establishment Are Stuck in Past]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/30/nato-is-obsolete-as-shown-by-trumps-nudging/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In politics and geopolitics, people tend to cling to the old ways of thinking like a drowning man in a stormy sea clings to a life preserver. Case in point: NATO.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Elites Are the Problem, Not Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/removing-trump-wont-solve-americas-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Merry</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The elites are the problem.]]></description>
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