Blue State Blues

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The full cast is back this week to analyze the continuing deterioration of blue cities and states as middle-class Republicans flee coastal areas at accelerating rates. Is immiseration the goal? Then the editors then turn to discussion of 2024 as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. throws his name in the ring to challenge Biden in the primaries. Is RFK tapping into Boomer energy? And of course, the editors remind you to read the damn site!

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Round Table.
0:03.0	The big question for me looking at San Francisco,
0:06.6	especially, but some other places, including downtown LA,
0:10.8	is this commercial real estate problem.
0:13.0	The vacancies are endemic.
0:15.6	There is really no end in sight.
0:17.6	The problem is getting worse.
0:19.4	And nobody seems to know what to do about it.
0:23.6	No model for doing it if those premium, high-rise buildings
0:28.9	are just sitting there empty.
0:31.1	Yeah, you can ride it out, I guess,
0:33.4	but only if there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
0:38.2	And there isn't.
0:40.7	So if you are living in a state where commercial real estate
0:45.0	is relatively full, you will be relatively better off
0:50.2	than if you live in a state or a city
0:52.8	where the commercial real estate is emptying out.
0:58.9	Hello, and welcome once again to The Round Table,
1:23.2	our weekly publishers and editors podcast here at The American Mind.
1:28.4	I'm your host, Spencer Klaven, features editor of The American Mind,
1:31.8	and associate editor of The Claremont Review of Books.
1:34.9	And as summer comes on, it's always an special treat
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