One very grim year and three really good journalists.

Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.

I'm Peter Robinson.

The author most recently of the madness of crowds,

Douglas Murray writes for the London Spectator.

Kim Strassal writes the Potomac Watch column

for the Wall Street Journal,

her own most recent book,

Resistance at all costs,

how Trump haters are breaking America. The editor of Commentary magazine, John Pat Horitz,

is co-host of the Glop podcast and a columnist for the New York Post. In recent years John has devoted himself to magazine and

newspaper work but I'm going to mention John's most recent book which appeared

in 1993 because I love it still. It is one of the most insightful and funniest and most

engrossing books ever written about the presidency. John Pot Horret's 1993 hell of a ride backstage at the White House Follies.

Douglas, Kim, and John,

thanks for joining me.

All right, we begin our review of a stinker of a year, as we must, with the 45th chief executive of the United States, the Wall Street Journal, President Trump's musings about running again in 2024

are scrambling the calculus for the large field of fellow Republicans considering bids

close quote.

John, is Donald Trump going to retire to Maralago

and play golf, or is he going to attempt

to dominate the Republican Party for four years.

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