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<title><![CDATA[David French - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23511.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David French]]></description><category domain="23511">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[We Have Reached End-Stage Polarization]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/IgZ7P</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does anyone think a healthy nation with a healthy political culture would elect a man like Donald Trump not once, but twice?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Talarico Is a Picture of Christian Decency]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/nZtPO</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These days, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m asked more about James Talarico than I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m asked about any politician not named Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Is Mad at the 'Sleazebag' Leonard Leo]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/2C5bW#selection-515.0-515.47</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been condemning judges who rule against him since before he first became president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Won't Say He Wants Ukraine To Win]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/09/15/trump-dislikes-ukraine-for-the-most-maga-of-reasons/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's certainly understandable that many millions of Americans have focused on Springfield, Ohio, after the debate between Donald Trump and]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neil Gorsuch Has a Few Thoughts About America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/opinion/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The justice talks about everything from his indictment of the regulatory state to the rights of Native Americans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['MAGA Mike' Johnson and Our Broken Christian Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/05/maga-mike-johnson-and-our-broken-christian-politics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The speaker needs to consult his Bible more carefully.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Is the Evidence, Speaker McCarthy?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/09/12/where-is-the-evidence-speaker-mccarthy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a certain pattern to modern impeachment inquiries. They typically begin after the discovery of blatantly incriminating evidence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Musk, Tucker Carlson Don't Understand 1st Amendment]]></title>
							<link>https://web.archive.org/web/20221203200054/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-and-tucker-carlson-dont-understand-the-first-amendment/672352/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twitter is a private company'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'not the federal government.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dangerous Religious Zeal of 'Stop the Steal']]></title>
							<link>https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/623e14ae6c90860020524615/ginni-thomas-clarence-supreme-court-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa broke a rather'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' extraordinary and disturbing story. Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent a series of text messages to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Stand Reaffirmed the Wisdom of Impeaching Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://time.com/5779360/romneys-wisdom-impeaching-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was still the right thing to impeach Trump and hold him to account for his behavior.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Israel Trip, Omar &amp; Tlaib Partnered With Vicious Anti-Semites]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-partnered-with-vicious-anti-semites-to-plan-their-trip-to-israel/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This should be a national scandal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Should Racists Who Threatened My Family Outgun Me?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/second-amendment-right-to-effective-self-defense-more-important-than-ever/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right to effective self-defense has never been more important.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politics Is Not War: In Defense of 'Frenchism']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/06/24/in-defense-of-frenchism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In May, New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari published an essay in First Things with the eye-catching title (to me at least) of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Against David French'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'ism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Weak and Afraid--the Mueller Report Proves It]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/5574118/mueller-report-donald-trump/?utm_campaign=time&amp;xid=time_socialflow_twitter&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=socialflowtw</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President is not the man his supporters think he is.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Should Reject Tucker Carlson's Victimhood Populism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/the-right-should-reject-tucker-carlsons-victimhood-populism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Carlson accurately identifies certain maladies, but they are maladies that public policy can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t cure.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The White-Supremacy Surge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/12/03/the-white-supremacy-surge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re a conservative, the chances are that you don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t like to talk or think about white supremacy very much.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dan Crenshaw Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/dan-crenshaw-forgives-pete-davidson-saturday-night-live/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a market for grace in American politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats Have Not Earned Your Vote]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/democrats-havent-earned-your-vote-midterms-2018/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you like your Republican, you should keep your Republican.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The United States Should Fight for Montenegro]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/montenegro-nato-alliance-preserves-european-peace/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Allied military hegemony keeps the peace.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Should We Expect From a More Originalist Court?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/anthony-kennedy-retirement-more-originalist-supreme-court/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Breaking down the likely impact of Justice Kennedy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s retirement]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How #MeToo Has Undermined the #Resistance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/how-metoo-undermines-the-resistance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The steady drumbeat of sexual scandal is eroding the Left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s moral authority.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Supreme Court Join #TheResistance?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/donald-trump-travel-ban-supreme-court-resistance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the justices prepare to decide the fate of President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s so-called travel ban, the question looms large.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The True Sin of American Evangelicals in the Age of Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/evangelicals-support-donald-trump-political-realities-2016-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Civility Isn't Surrender]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/civility-isnt-surrender/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Left Won't Win the Gun-Control Debate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/gun-control-debate-liberals-wont-win-heres-why/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Lax Obama-Era School-Discipline Policies Enable Shooter?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/parkland-shooting-school-discipline-policies-limited-law-enforcement-involvement-with-students/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Memo Doesn't Make Its Case]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456122/what-nunes-memo-says-doesnt-make-case</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bottom line on the Nunes memo is clear. The truth awaits more transparency. The ball is in your court, Mr. President. Spare us the memos. Let's see the evidence ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Immigration Extremism &amp; Warnings of Extremism to Come]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455772/democrats-immigration-beliefs-sign-increased-extremism</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since 1998, Democrats have moved far to the left on immigration '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a sign of more extremism to come ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Democrats, Ownership Isn't Theft]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454801/democrats-republican-tax-bill-theft</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Left's rhetorical response to tax cuts represents a fundamental redefinition of private property ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If America Won a War and No One Cared?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454655/isis-defeated-why-does-no-one-care</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454655/isis-defeated-why-does-no-one-care]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David French</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The announcement came on Saturday. Just three days before the Alabama special election that transfixed the nation, and on the same day that President Trump fact-checked the Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Dave Weigel, Iraq'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s prime minister declared victory in the war against ISIS. Iraq...]]></description>
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