Delusions in the Streets

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🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The COMMENTARY podcast discusses the weekend of unrest that followed the one-year anniversary of white nationalist-instigated violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Despite vastly outnumbering the white nationalists who showed up to commemorate the heinous anniversary, many of the anti-racist demonstrators were not content to be peaceful. The podcast explores what animates these violent movements. Source

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0:00.0	Oh, for the best, expect the worst, some preach today, some die of thirst, the way of
0:15.8	knowing which way it's going, oh for the best, expect the worst.
0:23.7	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday, August 13th, 2018.
0:31.0	I am John Pudhord.
0:32.0	It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always.
0:35.4	A Greenwald, our senior editor, Hi Abe.
0:37.8	Hi John.
0:38.8	Noah Rothman, our associate editor, Hi Noah.
0:41.7	Hi John.
0:42.7	And Saurabh Amari, senior writer, Hi.
0:44.3	Saurabh back from a conference on religious liberty.
0:47.7	Hi John.
0:48.7	And he's freer than ever.
0:51.0	Unlike the rest of us.
0:53.1	Um, and speaking of freedom and liberty and First Amendment rights and all of that, there
0:59.6	was a classic pseudo non-event or a set of events this weekend in Washington and Charlottesville
1:08.4	to commemorate the delightful for one year anniversary of the Unite the Right Rally that turned
1:14.0	into a Nazi, neo-Nazi riot that led to laughing, led to the death of Heather Hayer.
1:23.0	And, uh, and the alarming sight of, uh, Tiki Torchett, uh, losers, losers screaming,
1:34.2	you know, the Jews will not take us over and all of that.
1:38.6	So everybody was so panicked leading up to this and there's, it's gonna be a huge thing.
1:43.9	America was gonna be divided again.
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