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<title><![CDATA[Chris Bray - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/22311.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Chris Bray]]></description><category domain="22311">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Are Republicans Allowing the Election To Be About Nothing?]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/09/22/republicans-are-allowing-the-election-to-be-about-nothing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You should vote against socialism, open borders, and trans everything. But what are you voting for if you vote for Republicans?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Greenland Deal Makes the Media Less Relevant Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/09/21/trumps-greenland-deal-makes-the-world-more-secure-and-makes-the-media-less-relevant-than-ever/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After months of hyperemotional media fearmongering, the Trump administration has closed a deal with Denmark that makes Greenland more secure.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Margaret Brennan Exists To Speak Power to Truth]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/08/11/margaret-brennan-exists-to-speak-power-to-truth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sneering at Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the CBS journalist Margaret Brennan was engaged in mindless cultural enforcement activity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saint Hillary Is Here To Tell You You're a Terrible Christian]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/30/saint-hillary-is-here-to-tell-you-youre-a-terrible-christian/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Her discussions of toxic empathy and the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ordo amoris'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' show she doesn't have the foggiest idea what the basic outline of the discussion is.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MN Daycare Scandal Reveals Blue Zone Fraud Culture]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/29/minneapolis-daycare-scandal-reveals-the-trajectory-of-blue-zone-fraud-culture/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Blue Zone political culture is empty. There's nothing in it. They don't make anything, they don't do anything.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, You Don't Actually Have To Be Insane on Crime]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/09/democrats-you-dont-actually-have-to-be-insane-on-crime/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You don't have to do a ritual performance about the poor suffering souls who were driven to crime by society's cruelty.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Left's Lies Undermine America]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/how-the-lefts-lies-undermine-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most of our political debate isn't debate at all, but a rhetorical parade of emptied symbols. And that seems to be the plan.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Never Trumpers Are on a War Footing]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/never-trumpers-are-on-a-war-footing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Left's newest allies are clear-eyed about the enemy they must conquer to see their political vision realized: you.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Nonresponsive Response to Tucker Carlson]]></title>
							<link>https://firebrand.news/beware-the-nonresponsive-response-to-tucker-carlson/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is such a great moment. I just realized what Tucker Carlson versus '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the swamp'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' teaches us. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m going to suggest that you ask yourself a single question and see if you can answer it, but give me a minute to get there.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rough Men, Strange Peace]]></title>
							<link>https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/rough-men-strange-peace?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As one of his sons, who never met him, wrote in his'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' memoirs, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I knew one thing of Lt. Colonel Donald Ephraim Downard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that he was a bad guy and that I should not be like him. It was drilled into me and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' my brother, David, like a jukebox on repeat, a daily reminder that I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Performative Societies, Meaningless Rules, Systemic Grift]]></title>
							<link>https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/performative-societies-birth-grift</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve reached a very particular stage in the game. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a certain big hospital, okay, in a certain big city, and that hospital requires visitors to either be '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'vaccinated'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' against Covid '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' so you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t infect anyone, see? '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or to present a negative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Year In, Trump Epitomizes America's Cultural Inflection Point]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/01/year-trump-epitomizes-americas-cultural-inflection-point/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rise of the gig economy foretells changes in governance as the rise of Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil foretold the rise of big government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When War Isn't War: Why We're Failing in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030403324.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Bray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a new book  about the war in Afghanistan, distinguished military affairs writer  Bing West argues that hazy objectives, bad political assumptions and a  long strategic muddle have burned away whatever structure of success  American grunts have built on the battlefield. In this...]]></description>
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