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<title><![CDATA[Ben Mathis-Lilley - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/33622.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ben Mathis-Lilley]]></description><category domain="33622">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Are We Out of the Woods on Tariffs? Hahaha, No]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/so-are-we-out-of-the-woods-on-tariffs-hahaha-no/ar-AA1CElia</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. EDT, the Donald Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s huge, newly announced tariffs on most of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s countries and penguin islands officially went into effect.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Could Be Getting Another Season on Trump Show]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/uh-trump-is-planning-to-do-what-with-ron-desantis/ar-AA1viU6a</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nominating Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense was, from the start, one of the least serious choices Donald Trump made in assembling his broadly unserious slate of second-term Cabinet nominees.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons From Harris' Performance With Black, Latino Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/very-wrong-lesson-kamala-harris-095000737.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party should not give up what has been possibly its most durable asset since the civil rights era.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Polls Deliver Resounding Verdict of 'Check Again Later']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/postconviction-trump-polls-deliver-resounding-verdict-of-check-again-later/ar-BB1nAfpt</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Abig question is looming after Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s felony conviction in a scheme to hide hush money payments to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels: Will it break through to so-called low-information (or disengaged) voters, who don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t follow current events closely?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are People Lying About a Major Unknown of This Election?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/there-s-a-major-unknown-of-this-election-are-the-people-being-polled-about-it-lying/ar-BB1iKiqo</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Very few known unknowns have ever been so unknown, or as high-stakes, as the effect Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s criminal trials will have on the 2024 presidential race.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bad Is This for Biden, Really?]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/biden-special-counsel-report-speech-donald-trump-doj.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A special counsel report on the president's handling of classified documents knocked his memory in a pretty pointed way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Haley Says She's Only Just Begun To Fight, But She Is Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/nikki-haley-says-she-only-024536048.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New Hampshire was her best chance, and Donald Trump won it handily.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Just 2 Candidates on GOP Debate Stage. Did Either...Win?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/were-just-two-candidates-gop-045214729.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There were strategic goals somewhere beneath the verbiage of the candidate's answers, probably.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Haley Has To Go Big or Go Home. Has She Made a Choice?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nikki-haley-has-to-go-big-or-go-home-it-looks-like-she-s-made-her-choice/ar-AA1lzp1F</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With exactly a month to go until the first nominating contest of the presidential race begins in Iowa, Nikki Haley has a few things going for her.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' She'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s established as the non'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Donald Trump candidate that members of the press (and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' betting markets) believe to have best chance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Christie Is the Voice of Honesty, You're in Trouble]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/most-telling-moment-final-gop-042602652.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Chris Christie is the voice of reason and honesty, you're in trouble.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Iowa Caucus Has Driven the Political Press to Madness]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/11/why-is-the-iowa-caucus-important-donald-trump-nikki-haley-ron-desantis.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The unusual dynamics of this race are producing some tortured metaphors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Haley Is Surging and Still Completely Irrelevant]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-gop-s-alternate-universe-front-runner/ar-AA1k3OLl</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Well, well, well: If it isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t an authentic presidential primary surge/boomlet! Former South Carolina Gov. and United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is en fuego.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jordan's Speaker Candidacy Is Neither Dead Nor Alive]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jim-jordan-s-speaker-candidacy-is-neither-dead-nor-alive/ar-AA1iuS7Q</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jim-jordan-s-speaker-candidacy-is-neither-dead-nor-alive/ar-AA1iuS7Q]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan appeared close to becoming speaker of the House. But on Tuesday, only 200 members of his 221-member party caucus voted for his candidacy on the House floor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Trial Schedule Is Coming Into View. Oh Boy]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/2024-campaign-overlap-almost-perfectly-094500918.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This raises some big questions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ramaswamy Emerges as the Republican Buttigieg]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/vivek-ramaswamy-emerges-republican-pete-040144483.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first GOP debate had a clear main character.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is DeSantis' Last Shot, Really]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/republican-debate-fox-desantis-ramaswamy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP needs this debate. And not just because Trump has been indicted four times.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Should DeSantis Do? Strategists Suggest Dropping Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-have-never-seen-a-worse-campaign-and-candidate-what-campaign-flacks-think-of-desantis-2024/ar-AA1fgP79</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' gentle slide from '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'serious presidential contender'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' toward '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'guy who might end up competing with Doug Burgum to avoid polling at 0 percent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' has become less gentle in recent weeks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Campaign Reboots for Third Time in Two Months]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/ron-desantis-campaign-reboots-for-third-time-in-two-months.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Have you tried turning it off and on again?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He's Driving In, Exactly?]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/mike-pence-running-for-president-2024-why.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former VP has an immense capacity for self-delusion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wild Backstory to George Santos' Arrest]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/george-santos-charged-criminal-case-doj.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I spent weeks trying to solve the biggest mystery of his rise: the money.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Keeps Trying To Make Hunter Biden Happen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-are-going-to-keep-trying-to-make-hunter-biden-happen/ar-AA14q3wm</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans will have a narrow majority in the House next year. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s going to be Hunter Biden time'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' all'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the time'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in Congress in 2023! Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s explain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and explore.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Happy Birthday, Mr. President! You Are 80 Years Old!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/happy-birthday-mr-president-you-are-80-years-old/ar-AA14k2RG?ocid=EMMX&amp;cvid=c82296a018764a938a37399ce685df31</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[e've gifted you a birthday assessment of where you are, and where you go from here.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So, Is Trump Really Toast, or What?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/so-is-donald-trump-really-toast-or-what/ar-AA14bJHS</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/so-is-donald-trump-really-toast-or-what/ar-AA14bJHS]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump declared his candidacy for president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'like, for the term that would start in January 2025'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'on Tuesday night at his Mar-a-Lago resort/home/country club thing in West Palm Beach, Florida.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four Things Democrats Will Be Fighting About Until 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/democrat-2022-midterms-wisconsin-north-carolina-florida.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/democrat-2022-midterms-wisconsin-north-carolina-florida.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why dwell on the abundant positives when one could nit-pick bitterly about the few things that went wrong?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[J.D. Vance's Campaign Is Not Going According to Plan]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/jd-vance-tim-ryan-ohio-senate-trump-midterms.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/jd-vance-tim-ryan-ohio-senate-trump-midterms.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I went to Ohio looking for super fans. Here's what I discovered instead.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will GOP Mega-Bozos Win Because of the Price of Gas?]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/democrats-bad-midterm-polls-bad-vibes.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/democrats-bad-midterm-polls-bad-vibes.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been a real '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'well, shit'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' few days for Democrats, for which one could either blame the New York Times or the underlying reality on which the New York Times reports.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia 'Experts' Cheerlead Their Way to Nuclear War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-lot-of-russia-hawks-were-so-right-about-ukraine-that-it-has-driven-them-crazy/ar-AAUzx73</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is the best their worldview has looked since the '90s.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Jersey Is the Best-Run State in America. Really!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-jersey-is-the-best-run-state-in-america-really/ar-AAQ1289</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-jersey-is-the-best-run-state-in-america-really/ar-AAQ1289]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not a golden era for America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s state governments.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The governor of New York, regardless of who it is, only seems to exist to screw up in nationally humiliating ways. California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leadership class is just getting around to dealing with the literally existential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Delusion at the Heart of Immigration Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-decades-old-delusion-at-the-heart-of-american-immigration-policy/ar-AAORHma</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-decades-old-delusion-at-the-heart-of-american-immigration-policy/ar-AAORHma]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Undocumented attempts to cross the U.S.-Mexico border are on the rise, up more than 50 percent from their'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' pre-COVID 2019 peak. Some are being made by natives of Mexico and migrants from the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Northern Triangle'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but there are also...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Dems Lose '22 If GOP Platform Is 'Our Riot Was Good'?]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/democrats-midterms-republicans-trump-riot-lose-seats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Mathis-Lilley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a rule of politics that has held true in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' all but two'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' instances in the post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'World War II era: In midterm elections, the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s party loses a big old chunk of seats in the House of Representatives. It is thus not difficult right now to find punditry that warns...]]></description>
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