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<title><![CDATA[McKay Coppins - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24127.xml</link><description><![CDATA[McKay Coppins]]></description><category domain="24127">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What Romney Saw in the Senate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/mitt-romney-retiring-senate-trump-mcconnell/675306/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an exclusive excerpt from my forthcoming biography of the senator, Romney: A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to retire.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Kyrsten Sinema Theory of American Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-kyrsten-sinema-theory-of-american-politics/ar-AA1awi56</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Arizona senator attempts to explain herself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Becomes the Thing He Never Wanted To Be--Boring]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-is-the-establishment-now/ar-AA18hIJL</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One thing can be said for the proprietors of the MAGA Mall: They know their brand.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Waiting for a Deus Ex Machina End to the Trump Era]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/waiting-for-a-deus-ex-machina-end-to-the-trump-era/ar-AA16ThbD</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lots of Republicans want Donald Trump to disappear from politics. Their main strategy is hope.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Justice Kavanaugh Out for Revenge?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/is-brett-kavanaugh-out-for-revenge/ar-BB1gGGXR</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The suburban gentry of Chevy Chase, Maryland, had some difficulty making sense of Brett Kavanaugh'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s descent into villainy that fall. He had always seemed so nice and nonthreatening to his neighbors, so normal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the khaki-clad carpool dad who coached the girls'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' basketball...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Republican Amnesia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/republicans-are-already-rewriting-trump-years/617715/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How will the GOP recover from the Trump era? Pretend it never happened.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Resistance's Breakup With the Media Is at Hand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/12/media-after-trump/617503/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House spent four years vilifying journalists. What comes next?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump: False Prophet]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On February 28, Donald Trump stood before a crowd of supporters in South Carolina and told them to pay no attention to the growing warnings of a coronavirus outbreak in America. The press was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'in hysteria mode,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' said. The Democrats were playing politics. This...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2020 Disinformation Campaign to Reelect Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One day last fall, I sat down to create a new Facebook account. I picked a forgettable name, snapped a profile pic with my face obscured, and clicked '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Like'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' on the official pages of Donald Trump and his reelection campaign. Facebook'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s algorithm prodded me to follow Ann...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t want to go through with it. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'This has been the most difficult decision I have ever had to make in my life,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he told me yesterday afternoon in his Senate office. Roughly 24 hours later, Romney would deliver a speech announcing that he was voting to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Liberation of Mitt Romney]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a strange look for the 72-year-old senator, who typically affects a measured, somber tone when discussing Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s various moral deficiencies. But after weeks of escalating combat with the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'over Ukraine, and China, and Syria, and impeachment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Ivanka &amp; Don Jr.'s Fight to Control the MAGA Empire]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/trump-dynasty/596674/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ivanka was always Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s favorite. But Don Jr. is emerging as his natural successor.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conspiracy Theorists Won't Believe 'Official' Epstein Story]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/epstein-suicide-conspiracies/595906/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trust in gatekeepers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'from media to government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'has eroded to the point of making an official account almost obsolete.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stephen Miller: Trump's Right-Hand Troll]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/stephen-miller-trump-adviser/561317/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stephen Miller once tormented liberals at Duke. Now the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s speechwriter and immigration enforcer is deploying the art of provocation from the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're All Watching the Donald Trump Show]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/were-all-watching-the-donald-trump-show/555833/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sam Nunberg's Spectacular Stunt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/nunberg-interview/554921/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'By the way, you know I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m the number one trending person on Twitter?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'It was just after 8 p.m. on Monday night, and the suddenly-famous Sam Nunberg had phoned me from Dorrian'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Red Hand Restaurant, a yuppie hangout on Manhattan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Upper East Side, where he was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Swamp Drained Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/swamp-trump/551807/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a drizzly january afternoon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' one year ago, a newly sworn in President Donald J. Trump stood on the steps of the United States Capitol, doing his best to terrify America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ruling class.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[God's Plan for Mike Pence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/gods-plan-for-mike-pence/546569/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No man can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' serve two masters, the Bible teaches, but Mike Pence is giving it his all. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a sweltering September afternoon in Anderson, Indiana, and the vice president has returned to his home state to deliver the Good News of the Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' recently unveiled tax plan. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How James O'Keefe Made Himself Irrelevant]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/james-okeefe/546911/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conservative provocateur James O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Keefe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest stunt is possibly his biggest backfire: He attempted to sting'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with a fake Roy Moore accuser, but found himself stung, as the Post exposed the scheme in a detailed report on Monday night.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Reap the Whirlwind of Their War on Media]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/conservatives-reap-the-whirlwind-of-their-war-on-the-press/546215/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All news is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fake news'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'at least if you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re a diehard Roy Moore supporter.With sexual misconduct allegations continuing to mount against the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, Moore has defied calls to drop out of the race by advancing an audacious conspiracy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Conversation With Bret Baier, the News Guy at Fox News]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/bret-baier/542010/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a network largely defined in the public consciousness by Tucker Carlson berating campus activists and Sean Hannity stumping for Donald Trump, Bret Baier is something of an anomaly. His nightly newscast,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Special Report, is probably the closest Fox News has ever come to achieving the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Left Lost Its Mind]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich: Speaker of the Trump House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/newt-gingrich/528228/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few weeks after the 2016 election, Newt Gingrich appeared at the Heritage Foundation to deliver what had been billed as a speech on the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Principles of Trumpism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Tellingly, he spent most of his time instead talking about the brilliance of Trump the Man'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'his epic debate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fight for Control of the Heritage Foundation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/the-fight-for-control-of-the-heritage-foundation/525033/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The drama over the attempt to remove the president of the Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint, is partly classic Washington power politics. But it also reflects tensions over the organization'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s relationship with the Trump administration and with Trumpist ideology. DeMint, the former...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jason Chaffetz's Abrupt Exit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/jason-chaffetz-reelection/523575/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Representative Jason Chaffetz shocked politicos from Utah to Washington Wednesday with a surprise announcement that he would not seek reelection next year. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Is Changing What Conservative Means]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/what-does-moderate-mean-in-the-trump-era/522642/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Identity Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/the-gops-ideological-identity-crisis/521316/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the past several decades, members of the GOP have mapped the ideological range found within their party onto a fairly straightforward spectrum'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'one that runs from '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'moderate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'conservative.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The formulation was simplistic, of course, but it provided a useful...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson: The Bow-Tied Bard of Populism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/tucker-carlson-interview/516231/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson is selling me hard on the swamp. It is an unseasonably warm afternoon in late January, and we are seated at a corner table in Monocle, an upscale Capitol Hill eatery frequented by the Fox News star. (Carlson, who typically skips breakfast and spends dinnertime on the air,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Great Escape]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/donald-trumps-great-escape/517248/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Political Class Panicking at Prospect of Trump Win]]></title>
							<link>https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/republicans-privately-panic-at-terrifying-prospect-of-trump?utm_term=.xn3jPlw7W#.jpb7lApQr</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>McKay Coppins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Clinton campaign'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wobbly performance over the past 72 hours has set off a rash of behind-the-scenes handwringing among professional Republicans as they confront an unnerving new possibility: What if their nominee actually wins the White House?]]></description>
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