Democracy Deserves Better Friends
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden delivered another speech last night about the threat Republicans pose to the health of American democracy, this time drawing a straight line from the January 6 riots to the attack on Paul Pelosi. Is he right? Or are Democrats as conditional as Republicans when it comes to their affection for the mechanisms of self-government?
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| 0:00.0 | music |
| 0:24.4 | Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Thursday, November 3rd, 2022. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm John Pothor. It's the editor of commentary magazine, which means always executive editor |
| 0:33.6 | A. Greenwald Hyade. |
| 0:34.8 | Hi John. Media commentary columnist in American Enterprise Institute, |
| 0:38.5 | fellow Christine Rosenhykrstein. |
| 0:40.8 | Hi John. |
| 0:42.0 | An associate editor and author of the Rise of the New Puritans, |
| 0:45.2 | Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. |
| 0:46.4 | Hi John. |
| 0:48.6 | Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. gave a speech last night. Very oddly, he traveled to Union Station |
| 0:54.6 | in Washington, which is a very grand building, you know, neoclassical building, |
| 1:03.2 | given nationally televised address, but they put flags and stuff up and it was as though he was |
| 1:10.2 | talking in a hallway in the White House like it why he traveled. He had an audience, but the |
| 1:15.9 | audience was silent until the very end when it kind of applauded a little bit. |
| 1:20.6 | Very strange staging of the speech, because he was giving a speech. I'm going to butt in to say |
| 1:26.4 | I had someone who lives in DC and has to travel out of that station a lot. There was a huge and |
| 1:31.2 | rather messy and and drug infested and crime-ridden homeless encampment at Columbus Circle right |
| 1:37.1 | outside Union Station for a long time. That was cleared last week suspiciously. Like suddenly, |
| 1:42.0 | they cleared them all out and it became clear it's for the optics of a president giving a speech |
| 1:46.8 | there, but it is a grand building. It is it is a deteriorating public space. It has been for some |
| 1:52.1 | time. It's full of, you know, a lot of there's it's very crime-ridden lately. It's very dirty. |
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