Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Thursday, April 22, 2021. I am John Pudhord, the editor of Commentary Magazine

with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe.

Hi, John. Associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi, Noah.

Hi, John.

And senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine.

Hi, John.

My friend of mine texted me this morning to say, maybe it's time for there to be an enough

full-ready party. We all need to join the enough already party, enough already because

they're keeping these moments where you think that some kind of fever is going to break

or the kind of hysterical pitch at which we seem to live in public with news stories and

the like is going to break as we realize we can't live at this level and that there was

some hope maybe that Trump's departure from the scene even if it's temporary might have

some effect on that. Certainly it has in relation to the presidency, which we're not focusing

on with this incredible, you know, intense, almost monomonialical focus. But the enough

already party would convene right now to deal with the after effects of the Derek Chauvin

verdict and the decision to highlight this what is from all evidence that we can glean

a justified moment of police intervention in the middle of a convict of the commission

of a potentially deadly and certainly injurious crime with a 16 year old girl in Columbus,

Ohio swinging a very large bladed knife at another girl who was opinion basically to

a car and the police officer in question fired after, you know, calling for her to get

down, get down, get down, fired as gun and and and save the life of the girl against

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