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<title><![CDATA[Chris Lehmann - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23969.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Chris Lehmann]]></description><category domain="23969">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Can't Stop the Uprising Against Data Centers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-ai-data-centers-populism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The grassroots revolt against AI oligarchs is reviving a more than a century-old fight against robber barons and their attempts to seize land, water, and political power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's New Red Scare]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/zF72c</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortly after announcing the mission of turning the 2026 midterms into a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'hate election,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the campaign brain trust for the Republican Party has settled on the secret-weapon epithet it plans to deploy against its Democratic congressional rivals: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Communism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Keeps Getting Away With Blasphemy]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/d0sUt</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals struggle to understand why the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s evangelical supporters never seem to mind his sacrilegious tendencies. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re missing the point.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Attack on SCOTUS Was Unhinged Even for Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-attack-on-the-supreme-court-was-unhinged-even-for-him/ar-AA1WLufM</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president went on a wild rant alleging that the justices who struck down his tariffs were part of a vast global conspiracy to destroy him.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Epstein Files Could Finally Sink Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-epstein-files-could-finally-sink-donald-trump/ar-AA1QiWWA</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a sickening sense of recognition attending the release from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee of a new cache of e-mails from Jeffrey Epstein and his associates indicating that Donald Trump had full knowledge of the pedophile sex trafficker'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s activities'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington, DC, Is Under a State of Siege]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/washington-dc-is-under-a-state-of-siege/ar-AA1KkxMi</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC, already lacks representation in Congress, has no control over its own budget, and cannot pass laws free from congressional interference. Now under the Trump administration, the city is moving toward bantustan status.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Those Texts Asking for Donations to Dems Are a Scam]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/those-constant-texts-asking-you-to-donate-to-democrats-are-scams/ar-AA1JVLOQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new analysis shows that if you give $100 to an appeal run by a leading Democratic Party vendor, only $1.60 will actually go to the campaign.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Class Trip to Nowhere]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/the-democrats-class-trip-to-nowhere/ar-AA1Gaj0D</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A sparsely attended forum about the working class held at a $40 million think tank'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'yep, sounds about right.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Joe Walsh Has a Lot To Teach the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-this-former-republican-has-a-lot-to-teach-the-democrats/ar-AA1G4hhQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Still Can't Figure Out What Happened in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/democrats-still-can-t-figure-out-what-happened-in-2024/ar-AA1FITUR</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Any forward pivot in American politics usually involves a fretful look backward, and as the Trumpian GOP sizes up prospects for the 2026 midterms, a new breakdown of the failures of the Democratic Party over the 2024 election cycle has materialized. On Monday, the Democratic polling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The DNC's Latest Feud Is an Exercise in Futility]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-dnc-s-latest-feud-is-an-exercise-in-futility/ar-AA1F4ilG</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are acting more like a bickering political science department than an opposition party.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Economic Advisers Suddenly Try To Act Normal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-s-economic-advisers-are-suddenly-trying-to-act-normal/ar-AA1DB3J2</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After global panic over the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s trade proposals, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is downplaying his boss'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bluster.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hegseth Is Self-Destructing at Lightning Speed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pete-hegseth-is-self-destructing-at-lightning-speed/ar-AA1DnwxX</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hegseth, like many other brazenly unqualified Trump cabinet nominees, weathered the storm, and seemed to be on course to be a prime exemplar of the Trump leadership model]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and His Cronies Desire a Police State]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/if-trump-sounds-like-he-wants-a-police-state-that-s-because-he-does/ar-AA1Dbjmz</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As President Donald Trump wound down Monday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Oval Office meeting with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, he trailed off into a reverie about having Bukele expand the capacity of the brutal COCET prison complex now housing immigrants swept up in Gestapo-style raids to include...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Delusional Tariff Policy Is Already Wreaking Havoc]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-s-delusional-tariff-policy-is-already-wreaking-havoc/ar-AA1CeMyG</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everything in the Trump governing playbook follows the broad dictates of reality TV programming, and yesterday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s announcement of a historic lurch back into the hoary dictates of nineteenth-century protectionism was no exception.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Donors Packed the House for an 'Actual Billionaire']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/democratic-donors-packed-the-house-for-an-actual-billionaire/ar-AA1Be7DR</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[J.B. Pritzker's appearance at the Center for American Progress met with a resounding reception. But is his elevation to the national stage the way to reach working people?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Can Fight Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/how-democrats-can-fight-back/ar-AA1z4O7i</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/how-democrats-can-fight-back/ar-AA1z4O7i]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jamie Raskin lays out the legal strategy to oppose Trump but says, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not going to sue our way out of a political crisis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Democrats need a political organizing strategy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Building a Bridge to 1896]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/donald-trump-is-building-a-bridge-to-1896/ar-BB1rdCcG</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For at least two decades now, social critics and commentators have been proclaiming that America is in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a second Gilded Age. Like'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the similar fascism debate, the invocation of the late 19th century'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s summit of freebooting capitalism to characterize our own age of rampaging...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened to the Democratic Party?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-dealignment-left-adrift-hollow-parties/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With all eyes on the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been easy to overlook or downplay the many signs of acute decline in American politics. Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory is still sending shockwaves through the established political system, so it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tempting to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Overdue for New Leadership]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-are-overdue-for-new-leadership/ar-AA1vKNhJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Democratic Party begins the long process of digging out from the 2024 electoral debacle, the list of prescriptions to reinvent the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s core governing agenda and messaging complex grows longer and longer. But there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s one short-term pressure point in this battle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Somehow, Americans Are Liking Trump Better Every Day]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-approval-ratings/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The incoming administration's cabinet appointments are a bizarre disaster. So why are the president-elect's approval ratings going up?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. &amp; Mrs. Scarborough Go to Mar-a-Lago]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mr-scarborough-goes-to-mar-a-lago/ar-AA1uqkqX</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The hosts of Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s favorite political talk show have quickly pivoted to kissing the ring of the incoming president.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Still Running Against Clinton]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-is-still-running-against-hillary-clinton/ar-AA1pvJhC</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Flailing against a new Democratic ticket, the former president is reverting to the same strategy he used against the only electoral opponent he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ever defeated.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walz Brings Democratic Ticket Back to the Party's Roots]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tim-walz-harris-vp/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vice President Harris's running mate is a heartland governor who has championed Minnesota's working class. It's a departure from the party's long slide toward Beltway elitism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Is Bringing Blue-State Politics to Campaign Trail]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-is-bringing-blue-state-politics-to-the-campaign-trail/ar-BB1qUf6D</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-is-bringing-blue-state-politics-to-the-campaign-trail/ar-BB1qUf6D]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In California, Republicans have mostly lost their grip on the electorate. Harris's presidential run has brought that attitude to the national stage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vance Is the Terrible Future of the Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-trump-vp-pick-analysis-rnc/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-trump-vp-pick-analysis-rnc/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's VP pick is the perfect vessel for soulless, pseudo-populist MAGA tyranny.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's New Strategy: Act Normal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/donald-trumps-new-strategy-act-normal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the opposition in disarray, Trump and his campaign have begun exhibiting unusual restraint in hopes of expanding his support.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Slapdash Hunter Biden Conspiracies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/hunter-biden-delaware-federal-court/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ignoring actual facts, Republicans are trying to turn the president's son's sad, seamy saga into an election scandal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Noem Learns You Can't Out-Trump Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kristi-noem-donald-trump/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kristi-noem-donald-trump/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The South Dakota governor's attempt at mimicking the former president's obstreperous public image has fallen disastrously flat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House Foreign Aid Bills Put a Target on Johnson's Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/foreign-aid-bills-house/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Chris Lehmann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a vote in favor of sending $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan passed, far right Republicans are threatening a motion to vacate the speaker of the house.]]></description>
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