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<title><![CDATA[Michael Brendan Dougherty - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/26376.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Brendan Dougherty]]></description><category domain="26376">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Finally, the Forever War Is Ending]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/ending-the-forever-war-in-afghanistan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ending the forever war in Afghanistan is good for democracy in the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders Didn't Have What It Takes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/democratic-debate-bernie-sanders-pulled-punches-against-joe-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He's interested in his revolution and ideology, not in disqualifying the opponents who represent the system he would radically alter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kamala Harris' Rise and Fall Mirror CA's Trajectory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/kamala-harris-campaign-failing-california-failed-state/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Her ambitious rise and ignominious fall mirror California's trajectory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warren's Native American Problem Isn't Going Away]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/elizabeth-warren-native-american-controversy-not-going-away/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Warren and her media allies will, however, keep doing their utmost to convince us otherwise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Aspirational Asceticism of the Progressive Elite]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/progressive-elite-aspirational-asceticism-environmentalism-cost/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exhorting those less fortunate than you to forgo the most basic modern conveniences for the good of the planet won't lead to a morally superior future.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Was Free About Our Trade With China Before Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/us-china-trade-relations-free-trade/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China seems to be following, in broad outlines, a familiar development script: invest in and protect industries that give the nation a strategic advantage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brexit Government Comes to Power at Last]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/the-brexit-government-comes-to-power-at-last/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Boris Johnson and his new cabinet could well fail, but at very least the men who led the Leave campaign are now charged with carrying out its result.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ross Perot, a Morning Star of Trumpism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/ross-perot-a-morning-star-of-trumpism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His folksy-billionaire style and working-man sensibility provided a model for Gingrich, Trump, and others.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Democrats Went Nuts in 3 Months]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/democrats-went-crazy-in-three-months/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As centrists, they would clean up in 2020, but instead, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leftward ho!]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Caravan Exposes the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/migrant-caravan-democrats-border-enforcement-immigration-debate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They ask Republicans to believe their commitments to enforcement. They ask activists not to.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Catholic Church's Rotherham]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/catholic-churchs-pennsylvania-grand-jury-report/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Church cannot govern itself from within, it will be governed from without.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg Plays Along w/Scapegoating of Facebook]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mark-zuckerberg-plays-along-with-the-scapegoating-of-facebook/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Something really bothers me about the corporate apology choreography from Facebook'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s headquarters.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Social-Media Panic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/cambridge-analytica-social-media-panic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Make no mistake: 2016 will never happen again.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Historians are not always reliable predictors of the future, but Niall Ferguson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' analysis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of how Silicon Valley and the center-Left would react to the successive and surprise victories of Brexit and Donald Trump is proving...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Center-Left Politics: Dying in Europe &amp; America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/center-left-politics-dying-europe-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[here was once a time when the center Left appeared like the natural governing philosophy and coalition in the West after the Cold War. The details were different in each country, but the general outline held. Having made permanent peace with capitalism, the center Left could capture...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can You Bribe Tyrants into Freeing Their Countries?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/china-economic-growth-does-not-reduce-tyranny-western-elite-mistake/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wonks Made Celeb Presidents Possible, Maybe Necessary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455257/oprah-winfrey-celebrity-presidents-wonks</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The wonkization of politics has led to the celebrity presidency ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Europe Merkel Made]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452791/angela-merkel-europe-legacy-immigration-border-walls-brexit-far-right-germany-austria</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Angela Merkel's immigration policy has hurt Europe and herself politically. She helped stoke the rise of the far Right ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Qatar Finally Goes Too Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448397/saudi-arabia-threat-qatar-denied-fifa-world-cup-2022</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that Qatar is embroiled in controversy with nearly the entire Sunni Islamic world, led by Saudi Arabia, the 2022 FIFA World Cup is suddenly at risk. You almost have to laugh, as this very fact reveals Saudi Arabia's considerable hard and soft power globally. The Qatar World Cup has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Frantic Desire for American Decline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448245/donald-trump-american-leadership-united-states-european-union-china-merkel</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America has lost the leadership of the globe in the last ten days. In fact, it lost it two times over. For completely different reasons. The first time it was an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that did it. Twilight of American power, right there. Might as well mothball the nuclear subs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Experts Agree: The Deplorables Really Are Deplorable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447511/trump-voters-deplorable-racists-why-trump-won-round-two</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scene: The lab-coated man comes in from the room. It was a troubling case, he admits. This question of why you voted for Trump. He snaps on his surgical glove and probes his patient's mouth in the usual way A real brain crusher! The boys and I really went a few rounds on the diagnosis....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Can't Save Syria. And It Shouldn't Try.]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/690372/america-cant-save-syria-shouldnt-try</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Syria has become a horrifying hellscape. That doesn't mean America should go to war.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Arrogant Thinking of Liberal Sports Writers]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/680886/arrogant-thinking-liberal-sports-writers</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sports media has become predominantly liberal. That's not a good thing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Doddering Establishment]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/678818/doddering-establishment</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The establishment is on life support. And it has dementia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media's Trump Dossier Coverage Is Suicidal]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/672551/why-medias-trump-dossier-coverage-suicidal</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once-respected news outlets are now sinking to Donald Trump's level. This won't end well.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Students Don't Want to Learn Anymore--Just Teach.]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/671961/students-dont-want-learn-anymore-want-teach</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's what it really means to 'de-colonize' Plato]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pathetic End of the Obama Era]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/670479/pathetic-end-obama-era</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you left your country and party in such a state, you'd be acting like a petulant jerk, too]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Angela Merkel Is Destroying Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/2016/12/26/angela_merkel_is_destroying_europe_181225.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel's celebrated open-door policy encouraged the migration of more than 1 million refugees in 2015, and hundreds of thousands more in 2016. It was lauded as a courageous triumph of humanitarianism. Even in 2016's year-end accolades, Merkel has been given...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Exiled the Political Class]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/668769/how-donald-trump-exiled-political-class</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His Cabinet will not be full of the usual suspects]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bipartisan Kabuki of Lying About Our Wars]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/633095/weird-kabuki-democrats-republicans-lying-about-middle-east</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time to talk about how absurdly dishonest both parties are being about American foreign policy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why 'Crooked Hillary' Is Likely to Stick]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/625896/why-crooked-hillary-likely-stick</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Brendan Dougherty</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has a knack for nicknames. Low-energy Jeb caught something of Jeb's entitled aura. "Little Marco" got at something truly juvenile and naive about Marco Rubio. And "Lyin' Ted" was an effective way of branding Ted Cruz's dishonesty. Lately, Donald's been trying new nicknames...]]></description>
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