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<title><![CDATA[Brandon J. Weichert - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/34447.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Brandon J. Weichert]]></description><category domain="34447">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why China Could Vanquish the U.S. in New Space Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/05/21/why_china_could_vanquish_the_us_in_new_space_race_145795.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are now only two nations in the history of humanity that have successfully landed rovers on the surface of the Red Planet: The United States and the People'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republic of China. You can expect this to be the dominant headline in all matters related to space for many years to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China and Russia Are Winning the New Space Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/03/13/china_and_russia_are_winning_the_new_space_race_145394.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conflict, not cooperation, is going to define international affairs for the foreseeable future. This will be true both on Earth and, more importantly, in the strategic high ground of space. Fact is, the second space race is on. The world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s powers are playing for keeps. Whoever wins...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Surrenders to China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/09/america_surrenders_to_china_144805.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States is mired in a succession crisis. There is much loose talk about another civil war erupting between supporters of President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. As this occurs, America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s enemies act boldly against U.S. interests. Each precious moment wasted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Will Lose the New Space Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/04/joe_biden_will_lose_the_new_space_race_144131.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For 30 years, the United States allowed its once dominant position in space to erode. A succession of political leaders from both parties have either ignored or actively worked against maintaining and expanding America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard-won place in space. Because of these short-sighted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Counterpunching as Grand Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/05/trumps-counterpunching-as-grand-strategy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president is leaving Iran, Iraq, and Syria to their own self-destructive devices while he empowers U.S. allies in the region and focuses on defending actual American interests.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Knows Ukraine Owns the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/trump-knows-ukraine-owns-the-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has consistently promised to both drain the swamp that is Washington, D.C. as well as to make our allies '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' particularly those in Europe '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' more accountable to the American people for receiving vast sums of foreign aid...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Omar Blames America for Illegal Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2019/07/24/ilhan-omar-blames-america-for-illegal-immigration/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Radical Somali-American and left-wing Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) argues that U.S. foreign policy is the cause of the global refugee crisis. Without question, excessive aggression from the United States in Latin America and the Middle East has exacerbated the pre-existing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Winning Little Cold War With Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/trump-is-winning-the-little-cold-war-with-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, Iran has been in a state of ideological, religious cold war against the United States and its allies. Desiring to become the dominant force in the Mideast, Iran has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warren May Echo Trump, But Her Plan Is a Govt Power Grab]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/we-wont-get-fooled-again-senator-warren/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is right: the country needs economic patriotism. But, that's not'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' what Warren is offering in her campaign to become the 46th president. In a recent speech for her ailing campaign, the Democratic senator who is fond of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Green New Deal Punishes Working-Class Americans]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-green-new-deal-is-about-punishing-working-class-americans/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t read the details of the Green New Deal, let me save you the trouble: it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a raging assault on America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s already-declining working-and-middle-class.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One of These Genocides Is Not Like the Others]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2019/02/02/one-of-these-genocides-is-not-like-the-others/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The story of America as told by the American Left is one of unremitting exploitation, enslavement, and genocide.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seriously, Just Order the Pentagon to Build the Wall]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/12/15/seriously-just-order-the-pentagon-to-build-the-wall/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The estimated price tag on President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'big, beautiful'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' southern border wall is $25 billion'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a paltry sum compared with the ways government otherwise fritters away taxpayers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' dollars. Yet a government shutdown looms'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and Democrats can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[France Is In Self-Destruct Mode (Again)]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/france-is-in-self-destruct-mode-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The guillotine has been outlawed, right?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Are the Real Threat to Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-democrats-are-the-threat-to-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t care less that they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re now officially what they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve claimed to see in Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remember Mollie Tibbetts]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/08/22/remember-mollie-tibbetts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats say love trumps hate, and they're not wrong'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'at least, not for the reasons they think. Donald Trump won in 2016 precisely because love trumps hate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the love of a parent for her children; the love of people for their community; and the proper love]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Retired Swamp Dwellers Shouldn't Have Clearances]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/retirees-shouldnt-get-security-clearances/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another entitlement the openly partisan Swamp dwellers should have no claim to.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin Needs a Deal With Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/08/putin-needs-a-deal-with-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Russian Federation controls one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. In fact, Russia's nonstrategic nuclear weapons arsenal is likely larger and more advanced than its counterpart in the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bomb Assad, But Bring the Boys Home]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/04/09/bomb-assad-but-bring-the-boys-home/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent events have dragged the Syrian civil war once again to the center of the world's attention. The first of these events was the recent meeting in Ankara, Turkey with Turkey's leader, President Recep Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Post-American President Returns to Center Stage]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/03/11/the-post-american-president-returns-to-center-stage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Netflix last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' announced plans for former President Barack Obama to produce a series where the Progressive movement's biggest stars come together to promote their pet causes; in other words, a show that will be like every other television roundtable, with]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Your Heart, You Know Rand Paul Was Right]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/to-spend-or-not-to-spend/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the recent budget vote, Washington has decided to spend an additional $300 billion over the next two years, on top of the $1 trillion that we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve just tacked on to the national debt with the recent tax cuts. Congress also decided to put off dealing with the budget again until...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamanomics Is Dead and Trump Killed It]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/02/07/obamanomics-dead-trump-killed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world has become transfixed by the historic ups-and-downs of the stock market over the past few days. The schizophrenic nature of the markets is garnering the same kind of notice one might expect from a sports commentator describing a nailbiter of a basketball game]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Takeaway From Last Night? Dems, Revise 2018 Hopes]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/01/31/democrats-revise-hopes-2018/#431</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing that the Democrats claim to uphold, it's the working man. Yet when the much-maligned and misunderstood President Trump took to the podium for his first State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the Democrats sat silently while he]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs a Plumber, Not a Politician]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/01/14/trump-americas-plumber/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is not an ideological man. He ran by appealing to the sentiments that unite most working-class Americans, much like Ronald Reagan did in 1980. Working-class voters from factory employees to plumbers and electricians appreciated the themes Trump campaigned on during the 2016]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Democrats Running in Circles]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2017/11/29/trump-has-democrats-running-in-circles/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, President Trump made waves when he announced there would be no deal with the Democrats in the forthcoming budget battle. He increased the swells when he also insisted there would be no tax increases, contrary]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Afghanistan, Trump Needs to Put America First]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2017/08/18/u-s-afghanistan-heres/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ongoing war in Afghanistan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'America's longest (and most expensive) conflict to date'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is a mess and the military has no idea how to clean it up. What began as a simple punitive expedition targeting the terrorists responsible for 9/11 has become an indefinite nation-building...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anatomy of a Lie: Evolution of the Russia Narrative]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2017/06/01/the-anatomy-of-a-lie/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 2010 hit film, Inception, the lead character'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'explains to his prot'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'g'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'played by Ellen Page, An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats Have Chosen Defeat]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2017/02/26/democrats-chosen-defeat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's official. After a contentious election, the Democratic National Committee has chosen its next chairman, former Obama Labor Secretary Tom Perez. With Perez, the Democrats indicated they will be abandoning their extreme left-wing base and, in so doing, relegating themselves to being...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Beltway Boys Still Don't Get It]]></title>
							<link>http://amgreatness.com/2017/01/23/beltway-boys-still-dont-get/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brandon J. Weichert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching the news coverage of the inauguration, I was struck by how quickly the Washington establishment sets upon and locks into place a conventional wisdom on everything Trump does. On The O'Reilly Factor, Bob Woodward nonchalantly claimed that Donald Trump is not an ideological...]]></description>
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