<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Hard Left&nbsp;Responds]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I have to say there is a great deal of defensiveness out there. This reader conveys some of the feeling:</p> <blockquote> <p>My reaction to the new website?   Meh.   My reaction to your embracing Paul Ryan&#39;s prescription for &quot;fiscal sanity&quot;?   Why not just go ahead advocate that we round up the poor and gas them to death in concentration camps?</p> </blockquote>]]></html></oembed>