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<title><![CDATA[Christopher Roach - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/37069.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Roach]]></description><category domain="37069">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Dems Rigged '20, Will '24 Prove More Challenging?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/09/worst-of-all-worlds-for-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The left can't figure out how to make Biden win again or whom to embrace as an alternative.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America&rsquo;s Declining Power &amp; the Emerging Multipolar World]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/28/signs-of-americas-declining-power-and-the-emerging-multipolar-world/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If we want our country to be safe and powerful, we should start on the firm foundations of respect for peace, human life, and other nations'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' sovereignty.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Most of Today's Political Class Is Profoundly Out of Touch]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/07/unrepresentative-government/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today, the political class is profoundly out of touch.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Do You Believe: Your Wallet or Your Lying Eyes?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2023/11/27/who-you-gonna-believe-your-wallet-or-your-lying-eyes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a romantic relationship, one cannot generally influence his partner'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s emotions with rational argument. Feelings are unmediated, unruly, and mostly instinctual things. The same may be said for our feelings about the economy. They are not always rational, but that is not to say...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Expect a Resounding Trump Victory in Primary]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/01/trump-still-has-the-magic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump differs from DeSantis in three important ways that are likely to deliver him the primary victory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Doomed Ukraine Campaign Is Not Working Out]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/04/american-foreign-policys-midlife-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unlike in 1945, we are no longer the supremely productive, innovative, culturally united, and powerful America of yesteryear.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Has Made U.S. Weaker, Less Unified]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/15/biden-is-even-worse-than-obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rather than stabilizing things as the moderate Democrat he pretended to be, at every crossroads Biden has made decisions that make the country weaker, more hated, more fragile, and less unified.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When We Are the Minority]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/01/when-we-are-the-minority/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alot of people have been talking about a recent, shocking'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Wall Street Journal-NORC poll. Since 1998, the percentage of Americans saying patriotism is very important to them has dropped from 70 percent to 38 percent. Religion, too, has fallen from 62 percent to 39 percent. Having...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Footage Doesn&rsquo;t Lie]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/11/so-much-for-transparency/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an age of lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Tucker Carlson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s release of January 6 video is a big step in the direction of undermining trust in an establishment that deserves little.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mayor Pete Keeps Failing Upward]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/25/mayor-pete-keeps-failing-upward/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cautious, ambitious, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'well-rounded,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and soulless, Pete and his ilk are the dominant human type in charge of the world today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the managerial class.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukrainian Foreign Influence Endangers U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/26/ukrainian-foreign-influence-endangers-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are ruled by a corrupt, stupid, and hostile elite that is willing to risk our national security and impoverish us to prolong their temporary grip on power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do We Want Small Wars or World Wars?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/05/do-we-want-small-wars-or-world-wars/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People of goodwill should be thinking about how to let Russia and Ukraine both save face, end the war, and reach an agreement that accommodates each side'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s core interests.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russian Roulette in Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/25/russian-roulette-in-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We only remain in NATO and have involved ourselves in the current Ukraine mess because of our quixotic goal of remaining the sole superpower, which is rather ironically making us weaker.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[AOC&rsquo;s Policies Hurt the Poor and Help the Rich]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/19/aocs-policies-hurt-the-poor-and-help-the-rich/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Billionaire hedge fund owners pay much less on their investment income than the salaried schlubs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is a Phony--and a Mean One, at That]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/19/nice-guy-joe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During and after the 2020 election, commentators frequently touted Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s character as a major point in his favor. If Trump was unpredictable, aggressive, and uncouth, Biden stood in stark contrast: reliable, collegial, and, above all, empathetic.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coronavirus and Our War Against Nature]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2020/08/02/the-coronavirus-and-our-war-against-nature/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our approach is analogous to the outdated policy of aggressively fighting small forest fires, which seems logical enough, but creates the fuel for larger and more devastating conflagrations in the future.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Second Wave of Covid Stupidity]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/05/a-second-wave-of-stupidity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[irst we were warned about an exponential increase. Cases were doubling and tripling in as many days. Soon millions would be sick and dying. Then we were warned of rising deaths, even though many of these deaths had other causes. We were told to flatten the curve. We needed to stay home.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Night of the Generals]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2020/06/07/night-of-the-generals/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the Iraq War, the insurgency spent a lot of its resources attacking infrastructure, particularly the electrical grid. This made life miserable for ordinary Iraqis. That outcome seems to go against the logic of insurgency, where the center of gravity is the people's allegiance. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the Flynn Plotters Should Be Hauled Off to Jail]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/05/in-dealing-with-flynn-comeys-fbi-acted-like-the-kgb/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What happened to Flynn is quite simply an atrocity. Everyone responsible should lose their jobs, if Flynn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lawyers betrayed their client they should be disbarred, and the whole crew of plotters should be hauled off to jail. And Michael Flynn deserves his job back.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Should Dismiss Impeachment Without Trial]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/30/can-the-senate-dismiss-the-impeachment-without-a-trial/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the House of Representatives'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' recent decision to issue two articles of impeachment, it appears the Democrats are having second thoughts. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) thus far has refused to transmit the articles to the Senate because Senate Majority Leader Mitch...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Soft-on-Crime Democrats Are Tough on 'Gun Violence']]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/17/why-soft-on-crime-democrats-are-tough-on-gun-violence/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By embracing the magical thinking behind gun control, the Democrats remind us they would rather punish society and label law-abiding citizens wrongdoers than confront the criminal class.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2020 Has Echoes of 1996]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2019/06/10/2020-has-echoes-of-1996-for-the-opposition-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats have assembled a field of candidates for 2020 as large as it is unimpressive. From the slick Robert '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Beto'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Rourke and the media creation Kamala Harris to the Woodie Guthrie wannabe Bernie Sanders, to the fake folksy chameleon Joe Biden, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s amazing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Really Is Smarter Than the Generals]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/12/21/trump-is-smarter-than-the-generals/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A bipartisan consensus among the foreign policy elite holds that America needs to maintain its de facto overseas empire.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does the Democratic Party Stand For?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/09/what-does-the-democratic-party-stand-for/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, there were two patriotic parties in America. If you don't believe me, watch the Nixon-Kennedy debates. There you will see the hawkish Kennedy complaining that President Eisenhower was weak on defense, having allowed a bomber gap]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Border Wall Is National Defense]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2018/04/02/the-wall-is-national-defense/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Roach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a report from the Army's Command and Staff College detailing a tactical success during the French Counterinsurgency in Algeria, we learn the following:In the spring of 1957, the French began construction of an elaborate barrier'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'the]]></description>
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