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<title><![CDATA[Brian Beutler - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21928.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Brian Beutler]]></description><category domain="21928">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Neera Tanden or Bust]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/articles/neera-tanden-or-bust/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden must go to the mattresses for Neera Tanden. He can't let Republicans quash his cabinet nominees in bad faith without a fight.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Looming End of the Trump Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/articles/after-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the elation and relief of beating Trump wear off, we'll see that vanquishing fascism in America will require vigilance for years to come.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The RNC Is a Microcosm of Trump's Vile Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/articles/gop-convention-trump-presidency/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP convention has condensed the horrors of the Trump era, and the result is a traumatic reminder of how far we've fallen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Begins His Final Authoritarian Push]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/articles/trump-final-authoritarian-push/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under cover of awful darkness'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'85,000 dead Americans, nearly all of whom should be alive today, and a great depression of his own making'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'President Trump has accelerated his efforts to dismantle the rule of law in America. Those efforts have now reached an end stage where, having...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Report Coverup Can't Be Allowed to Succeed]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/articles/mueller-report-coverup/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Trump and Barr get their way, the standard of conduct for candidates and presidents will remain where Trump set it, and we will be in deep trouble.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Covington Students and the Poison of Trumpism]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/articles/trump-sandmann-covington-trumpism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For five days since the footage of an altercation between MAGA-clad Catholic school boys and the elder Native American activists Nathan Phillips near the Lincoln Memorial first caught fire online, the political Internet has been agonizing with itself, and arguing across ideological...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Big Is Mueller's Latest Bombshell?]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/articles/mueller-manafort-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The end of Paul Manafort'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s brief tenure as Special Counsel Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s star cooperating witnesses is a bombshell of unknown payload.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Is Investigating Trump's Corruption of America]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/article/mueller-trump-corruption-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump would have us believe that Special Counsel Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s interest in a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son Don Jr., Erik Prince, and an agent of the Saudi and Emirati governments offering illegal election assistance, is mission creep, and thus evidence of his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reckoning With Trump's Legitmacy]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/article/russian-interference-trump-mueller/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In announcing Special Counsel Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s indictment of 13 Russian nationals, whose efforts to subvert the 2016 election entailed conspiring to defraud the United States, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' included the conspicuous caveat'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that the charging documents...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boycotting Republicans Isn't Enough]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/article/boycotting-republicans-isnt-enough/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2012, the political scientists Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' threw in the towel. Their book,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Even Worse Than It Looks, laid the blame for the increasing dysfunction of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political system at the feet of the Republican Party, which, they admitted, had become...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Impeach Jeff Sessions]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/article/impeach-jeff-sessions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sessions is unlikely to actually face an impeachment inquiry anytime soon, but he should be put on notice that one is coming if the balance of power in Washington shifts. He deserves no less, and nobody in Democratic politics should deny him the honor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Grand Obstruction Party]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/article/republican-obstruction/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before the full scope of his disclosures became clear on Wednesday,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the first thing we learned'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about Steve Bannon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s extended dishing to author Michael Wolff was his opinion that the Trump campaign'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s collaboration with Moscow was real, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'treasonous,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and likely to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[None Dare Call It Collusion]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/article/trump-flynn-none-dare-call-collusion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Kelly, the Deplorable]]></title>
							<link>https://crooked.com/article/john-kelly-deplorable/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two months ago, after President Donald Trump praised a mob of white supremacists who inundated Charlottesville, VA, nearly everyone in Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s orbit, including his recently-promoted chief of staff John Kelly, let it be known to reporters, through private channels, that they were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Can Wage War on Monopolies &amp; Win]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144675/democrats-elizabeth-warren-can-wage-war-monopolies-and-win</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Republicans Actually Too Incompetent to Cut Taxes?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144610/republicans-actually-incompetent-cut-taxes</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The failure of Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act confronts President Donald Trump and his party with the once-unthinkable possibility that the year will end without a single significant Republican bill becoming law.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keep the Trump Leaks Coming]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144197/keep-trump-leaks-coming</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Both in content and in context, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' official transcripts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s January phone calls with Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull and Mexican President Enrique Pe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('±').';'a Nieto'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which were leaked to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and published Thursday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'depict a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Last Best Chance to Rescue Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/143526/democrats-last-best-chance-rescue-obamacare</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/143526/democrats-last-best-chance-rescue-obamacare]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is infuriatingly easy to imagine Senate Republicans passing legislation that throws millions of people off of their health plans to finance a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans this week, just days after introducing it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'without holding a single hearing for debate and amendments,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Desperate Spin of a Spiraling Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/143369/desperate-spin-spiraling-presidency</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/143369/desperate-spin-spiraling-presidency]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the old saying goes, nothing screams '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'clean hands'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' like repeatedly phoning up the FBI director for updates on your investigative status, asking him to publicly exonerate you, asking other intelligence chiefs to quash the FBI'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s work, firing the FBI director, then...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Trump Fires Robert Mueller, He Should Be Impeached]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/143293/trump-fires-robert-mueller-impeached</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/143293/trump-fires-robert-mueller-impeached]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Looking backwards after more than a month, the firing of James Comey has blended into the larger pattern of scandal engulfing Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency. This may have been inevitable; in a sense, Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to fire the FBI director was a single plot point in an unfolding...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republicans Broke American Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142918/republicans-broke-american-politics-media-elites-blind</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican Greg Gianforte'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' defeated'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Democrat Rob Quist in a special election Thursday for Montana'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lone congressional seat, a six-point victory that should horrify you because he won with the full support of the GOP after'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' body-slamming and punching'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' an American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Should Proudly Call for Trump's Impeachment]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142794/democrats-proudly-call-trumps-impeachment</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/142794/democrats-proudly-call-trumps-impeachment]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are very smart lawyers who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' believe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump entered the White House in violation of the Constitution, which forbids the president from receiving emoluments from foreign and local governments, and that he remains in violation of it today. But the list of reasons he could be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Rendezvous With Authoritarianism Has Arrived]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142652/rendezvous-authoritarianism-arrived</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The firing of James Comey has restarted a conversation about the vulnerability of public institutions in America that had gone largely dormant.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bret Stephens's Opinions Aren't the Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142444/bret-stephenss-opinions-arent-problem</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/142444/bret-stephenss-opinions-arent-problem]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To many liberals, The New York Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' decision to hire neoconservative opinion writer Bret Stephens was an obvious error, and one the former Wall Street Journal columnist drove home by using his very first column to posit that environmentalists overstate the likelihood of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Existential Crisis Won't Resolve Itself]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142168/democrats-existential-crisis-wont-resolve</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/142168/democrats-existential-crisis-wont-resolve]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jon Ossoff, a documentary filmmaker and political neophyte, has already accomplished far more than anyone expected in his bid for the U.S. House of Representatives. On Tuesday, in an 18-candidate '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'jungle primary'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in Georgia for the seat vacated by Health and Human Services...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Shouldn't Celebrate Trump's 'Centrism']]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142070/shouldnt-celebrate-trumps-centrism</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/142070/shouldnt-celebrate-trumps-centrism]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent policy reversals, and reports that he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s exasperated with right-wing advisers like chief strategist Steve Bannon in favor of moderates like son-in-law Jared Kushner, have given rise to a media depiction of the president as a burgeoning centrist. By...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sean Spicer Is the Awful Spokesman Trump Deserves]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/141990/sean-spicer-perfectly-awful-spokesman-donald-trump-deserves</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/141990/sean-spicer-perfectly-awful-spokesman-donald-trump-deserves]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to launch a missile attack against Syria last week rallied Republicans to his side, but has left the administration struggling to explain its volte-face. Trump campaigned against mission creep in Syria, and in 2013 criticized President Barack Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Let Trump Get Away With His Latest Deception]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/141855/dont-let-trump-get-away-latest-deception</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/141855/dont-let-trump-get-away-latest-deception]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s impulsiveness, his indifference to facts, his unwillingness to admit error, his White House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hostility to truth, and the broader Republican Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s cynical permissiveness of his antics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'all of these tendencies were well known before Trump reached for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Incredible Cruelty of Trumpcare]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/141303/incredible-cruelty-trumpcare</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://newrepublic.com/article/141303/incredible-cruelty-trumpcare]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American Health Care Act is a misnamed, regressive tax-cut bill meant to fool you into thinking its primary purpose is improving the health care system. But the incredible cruelty of the Republican bill didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t become clear until Monday, when the Congressional Budget...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republicans Are Off to a Pitiful Start]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/140520/republicans-off-pitiful-start</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Beutler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They control the government, but their Faustian bargain with Trump has been a miserable failure thus far.]]></description>
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