Explaining the Inexplicable

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🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In the second of this week’s COMMENTARY podcasts, the hosts try to wrap their heads around a series of events that defy logic. Why would Donald Trump try to rehabilitate people who align themselves with torch-lit rally-goers chanting racist slogans? Why would the left go to the mattresses to defend their own violent elements? And what the heck is Steve Bannon thinking in general? Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.
0:25.8	Today is Thursday August 17th 2017.
0:29.9	I'm John Pajor.
0:30.7	It's the editor of Commentary Magazine, the 72-year-old monthly of political analysis,
0:36.1	intellectual, probity, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.
0:39.9	Join us at CommentaryMagazine.com where we give you a few free reads and then ask you
0:44.8	to subscribe 1995 for a digital subscription, $2,795 for an all-access subscription including
0:52.8	our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox.
0:55.7	Right now you can read both on paper and online.
1:00.6	We have an article by Harvey Mansfield called the Vulgar Manliness of Donald Trump that
1:05.5	is going viral even as we speak.
1:08.6	Come take a look, subscribe.
1:10.9	You will be illuminated and delighted and horrified and learn a lot and contribute to the
1:19.6	intellectual life of the country by doing so.
1:22.0	With me as always, senior editor Abe Greenwald.
1:25.5	Hi Abe.
1:26.5	Hi John.
1:27.5	An associate editor, no wroth, one high Noah.
1:29.0	Hi John.
1:30.0	So guys, what should we talk about?
1:31.6	There's a summer, there's a lot of people think you should put the corn in the water before
1:38.5	you start the boiling and then take it out after it's put, some people say put it in,
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