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<title><![CDATA[Hugo Gurdon - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/32338.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Hugo Gurdon]]></description><category domain="32338">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Does Jihadi Evil Attract the Left?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4629415/why-jihadi-evil-attracts-left/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Left-wingers can always give you a rationale for their latest cause, but that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s often merely an intellectual cover for tribalism and a gut feeling.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left Sends Regrets on America's Birthday]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4624208/america-250-left-sends-regrets/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These are not the thoughts of someone who would like America to thrive for another 250 years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Descent of Britain Is a Warning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4605362/descent-britain-migrant-crime-warning-to-all/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Britain's moral collapse has, notoriously, produced industrial scale-rape of English girls by Muslim men.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Artemis--Huntress of New Frontiers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4514298/artemis-huntress-of-new-frontiers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Artemis is what America should be doing. America once built its self-image on the frontier. It needs to do so again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spanberger a Leftist Wolf Dressed as a Centrist Sheep]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4488943/bait-and-switch-democrat-abigail-spanberger/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What you see with Abigail Spanberger is not what you get. It is also not what you were led to believe when she was trawling for votes all over Virginia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Game the Census]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/how-democrats-game-the-census-for-power/ar-AA1VzcOf</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the 68th'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Grammy Awards, a day before'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Groundhog Day, singer Billie Eilish spied her shadow in a spotlight beam and predicted endless'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Hollywood'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' posturing on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' illegal immigration.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats: The Party of Lawbreaking]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/magazine-letter-from-the-editor/4420818/democrats-party-of-lawbreaking-ice-minnesota/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent events in Minnesota reveal that acceptance of lawbreaking and obstruction has become the norm for the Democratic Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[BBC Scandal, Trump and Farage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3881847/bbc-bias-donald-trump-nigel-farage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the BBC was caught doctoring video of President Donald Trump, Nigel Farage suggested the corporation should be reformed, not sold.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Shutdown Agony]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/3835068/chuck-schumer-government-shutdown-agony/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It will take four more Democrats to peel away from Schumer under Republicans' constant pounding before the shutdown itself gets shut down.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teachers Union Makes a Great Case Against Itself]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/magazine-letter-from-the-editor/3467870/teachers-union-national-education-association-antifa-ally/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Actual Americans voted for the Left's diligent work of destruction to be undone, which is happening. So, the Left is taking up arms against its country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Rotting News Media Can't Handle the Truth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3405528/trump-meet-the-press-media-cant-handle-truth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Trump appeared on Meet the Press, the big story was him responding, I don't know, after Welker asked, Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Embarrassing Displays of Media Blindness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3361771/embarrassing-displays-media-blindness-katherine-maher-npr/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NPR CEO Katherine Maher could not, even if she'd tried, have made a stronger implicit case for cutting federal financial support for her organization.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Special Relationship of Rape Apologists in U.S. and U.K.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3278144/special-relationship-rape-apologists-america-britain/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Voters on both sides of the Atlantic are tired of apologists covering up the crimes of Muslim men.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorting Through Biden's Garbage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3209808/sorting-joe-biden-garbage-democratic-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is only possible to play along with the Democrats' falsehoods about Joe Biden if one regards ordinary voters as garbage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris' Burdens of the Past]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3141675/harris-burdens-of-the-past/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vice President Kamala Harris is desperate to be unburdened by her own past.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Tries To Arrange His Fourth Term]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/magazine-letter-from-the-editor/3078382/obama-tries-to-arrange-his-fourth-term/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No successful two-term president has ever sought to control his party after leaving office as forcefully and deviously as Barack Obama has.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Democrats Stuck With Biden?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3021451/biden-stuck-democrats-stuck-with-him/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's problem has less to do with media critics than with deepening skepticism about his capacities being openly expressed by Democrats themselves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Memorial Day Flags, and the Upside-Down Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/magazine-letter-from-the-editor/3015478/memorial-day-flags-and-the-upside-down-left/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This Memorial Day weekend, all Americans should remember those who served the country, and also remember what those citizens fought for.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Atop the Greasy Pole]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2986676/biden-atop-the-greasy-pole/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party is changing under President Joe Biden, but not at his direction.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Steel in Biden's Spine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/magazine-letter-from-the-editor/2970693/no-steel-in-bidens-spine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden's move to triple tariffs to 25% on imported Chinese steel is an electoral effort to steal the clothes of former President Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Democrats Break With Israel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2932831/biden-democrats-break-with-israel/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden and the Democrats can stand with Israel in its hour of need or insist that the Jews live side by side with terrorists. But they cannot do both.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Stumbles Toward the Exit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2854610/biden-stumbles-toward-the-exit/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden's cascading confusion means Democrats have a problem similar to the one America faces as it slides ever deeper into debt. The crisis clearly requires action. You can pretend it isn't real in the short term, but it won't get better and won't go away. It will only get...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ramaswamy and Christie, Get Outta Here, Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ramaswamy-and-christie-get-outta-here-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Presidential primaries tend to produce one interesting candidate. The phrase is not wholly complimentary, for it identifies one of the hopefuls who have, in truth, no hope of winning. The candidate is evidently intelligent, highly unconventional, and less like any of the others than they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sanctimonious Aggression of Today's Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/youre-not-wrong-youre-evil</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An ugly Election Day incident in Arlington, Virginia, captures the blind, sanctimonious aggression of today's Left. A Republican poll greeter tweeted a video in which he is confronted by a Democrat who lobs a stomach full of self-righteous abuse at him like a clutch of Hamas rockets...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Left Can't Think Straight on Hamas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-the-left-cant-think-straight-on-hamas</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sheer depravity of Hamas's attack on Israel, during which its terrorists murdered close to 1,000 people and beheaded babies, is causing acute discomfort and splits in America's Left.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Courage Now Means Dropping Out, Not Staying In]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/republican-courage-now-means-dropping-out-not-staying-in</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The moment is fast approaching when Republican presidential contenders must act like Democrats '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' which means most of them bowing out of the primaries and supporting the candidate best placed to beat the guy they're all afraid of.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nikki Haley Won, But Will It Matter?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nikki-haley-won-first-gop-debate-will-it-matter</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Prime-time debates show who can stay effectively on message without being bogged down in the glutinous mire of their prepared remarks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Leave Ordinary Americans Behind]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/messaging-vs-reality-democrats-leave-ordinary-americans-behind</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' car in front of me recently at a traffic light had a political sticker on its rear bumper that read, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Leave no one behind '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' vote'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Democrat'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' .'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The message isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t new, and I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve seen the sticker before, but I found it freshly notable because it has surely...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's the Democratic Party and They'll Cry If They Want To]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democratic-party-cry-if-they-want-july-fourth</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I spent July 4 with friends on a boat anchored in the Potomac River near the Memorial Bridge, which crosses from Arlington Cemetery, where our military dead lie beneath dignified white gravestones, to the Lincoln Memorial and National Mall stretching east to Congress.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Primary: Big Tent or Big Top?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/republican-primary-big-tent-big-top</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hugo Gurdon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is almost impossible not to yawn at Mike Pence's run for president. Maybe it's because the Earth still has to revolve more than 500 times before Election Day 2024, but I think it's that the former vice president hasn't the slightest chance of winning despite being conservative,...]]></description>
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