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<title><![CDATA[Danny Westneat - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24181.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Danny Westneat]]></description><category domain="24181">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Was Never Going to Change After Getting Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/you-didnt-really-think-hed-change-after-getting-covid-did-you/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the start this has been a reality TV show, and that show must go on -- actual reality with COVID-19 be damned.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Irony: CHOP Shows We Still Need Police After All]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/the-irony-of-the-no-cop-chop-it-showed-how-much-we-still-need-the-police-after-all/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the shootings in the past few days near the Capitol Hill anti-police protest zone, the call went out, paradoxically, for the help of the one thing the protest is most arguing against.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Sounds Like They Want a 'Chickenpox Party']]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/its-starting-to-feel-like-republicans-want-to-have-a-chickenpox-party-for-coronavirus-in-the-whole-state/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our feel-good story here of how everybody came together, Democrats and Republicans, to let scientists take the lead in fighting the coronavirus is now starting to give way to some anti-science crackpottery.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Blue Seattle, Trump Supporters Start to Come Out of Hiding]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/in-blue-seattle-trump-supporters-are-starting-to-come-out-of-hiding/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People who used to worry about backlash for supporting Donald Trump are]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amazon Spurs Crisis By Not Paying Income Taxes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/amazon-puts-the-smile-in-federal-income-taxes-by-not-paying-any/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do you book record profits and still pay no federal taxes? The tax wonk who discovered that Amazon has done this two years in a row worries that]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Is Closing America Off From the World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/trump-hasnt-gotten-his-wall-but-hes-building-one-around-us-nonetheless/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This year in our state we haven't resettled a single Syrian refugee. And we've only welcomed a total of four from Iraq. The numbers don't lie: Trump is winning at closing us off from the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Seattle Gotten Better or Worse?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/has-seattle-gotten-better-or-worse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This surprisingly simple question doesn't get asked enough, or at all, even as Seattle is being remade at startling speed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[City Council in Denial Over Head-Tax Debacle]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/lots-of-blame-for-seattles-head-tax-debacle-except-where-it-belongs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The City Council implicitly acknowledged its employee head-tax plan was a loser when members voted to repeal it Tuesday, columnist Danny Westneat writes. But they couldn't admit it, instead blaming about everyone else in Seattle for the fail. Including you.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Howard Schultz, 2020? He'd Be a Lamb to the Slaughter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/howard-schultz-2020-we-in-seattle-know-hed-be-a-lamb-to-the-slaughter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Starbucks leader has many strengths, but Seattle can testify that politics isn't one of them. That's the part where his weakness cost us a city legacy, the Sonics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Bashing Amazon for the Wrong Reasons]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/trumps-war-with-amazon-is-phony-but-the-company-is-winning-the-real-one/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a real issue involving Amazon and its contributions to the country that made it great. It just isn't the one the president keeps going on and on about.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Is Trump Off the Hook on Sex Harassment?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/why-is-trump-off-the-hook-in-metoo-movement-because-we-let-him-off/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Think of a political campaign as a trial, with the election as the verdict. The reason President Donald Trump is seemingly immune from the sexual-harassment cultural shift is because, like it or not, voters already found him not guilty. Or at least not guilty enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Seattle, It's Now Taboo to Be Friends w/Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/in-seattle-is-it-now-taboo-to-be-friends-with-a-republican/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In some quarters '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? like with some down at Seattle City Hall '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? our extreme political polarization is a badge of honor, not something to worry about or fix.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Supposed to Be Fighting Back, But Just Keep Losing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/democrats-are-supposed-to-be-fighting-back-but-they-just-keep-losing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump may be off to the worst start in presidential history, but recent polls and election results show Democrats are even more unpopular than he is. What's wrong with the Democrats?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Problem Worse Than the NFL's]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[In WA, Romney Wins Votes, Not Passion]]></title>
							<link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2017660252_danny04.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Westneat</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was some real passion on display at the GOP caucuses Saturday. Just not for the winner."This is R.I.P. GOP!" fumed Nigel Featherston, a Republican precinct committee officer who voted along with about 300 others at the VFW hall in Redmond Saturday. "I'm fed up with my party...]]></description>
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