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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday March 11th

2019 also known as the day of my niece Avital Blooms wedding so I John

Pudhortz the editor of commentary and speaking to you from the beach in Tel Aviv where in five

hours my niece will be wed somewhere up the beach at some beautiful place that I haven't seen yet

so I'm here and in New York we have of course a green walled our senior editor high-aid

hi John and associate editor Noah Rossman hi Noah hi and congratulations John thank you fresh

from Noah's appearance on real-time with Bill Marcelline his of course important book unjust

available on Amazon as you know and in Washington none other than Christine Rosen our senior writer

high Christine hi John okay so with that so remember commentary magazine the 70-odd

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our April issue this week and it is a harvest of riches maybe the best issue we've done since I'd

been editor in which was started in January 2009 so be be ready for it because it's it's pretty

fantastic and I also want to thank our friend Scott Immergut from Ricochet who is as we

sometimes we must call on him to help us if we are doing this all through different Skype microphones

and so thank you Scott um so guys I think uh when we need to talk about the Democrats as they ramp up for

2020 and as they uh as their house majority begins to sort of harden into place and two things strike

me and we can take them in order one is that um uh they are crazy and they're talking and doing and

saying uh crazy things as though some massive revolution and consciousness happened in on on

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