Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Friday, January 7th, 2022.

I am John Baudhor, it's the editor of commentary magazine.

Nora Rothman is on vacation with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald.

Hi Abe.

Hi John.

And senior writer Christine Rosenhykrstein.

Hi John.

So can we talk about the Lynn Manual Miranda moment yesterday during the still a buster

like length commemoration of January 6th where roughly 250,000 people spoke from Statuary

Hall to talk about the you know their experiences and the terrible time that it occurred and

celebrating the Capitol Police.

I mean there was something don't care if it was the worst threat to democracy in the

worst days since 9-11 and we need to celebrate it.

There was something really off about this.

It had a kind of weird memorialization overdoneness lack of perspective and and and then candle

in the middle of all of this serious you know reflection on the nature of our democracy

and all of that.

Nancy Pelosi is like and now here's Lynn Manual Miranda.

Lynn Miranda comes on the zoom and says you know this is one of country their democracy

and then the cast of Hamilton sings a song from Hamilton a lesser known song called

Dear Theodosha.

Why is this weird?

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