Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for today August 22nd 2019.

I am Noah Rothman, the associate editor of commentary magazine.com with me as always,

senior editor, a green walled. I know. Not with me, but here in spirit is Christine Rosen,

high Christine. I know. And John Pahoritz is still out. He will be back with us on Monday. So

the president of the United States has been busy. He's been driving the news cycle and saying a lot

of stuff that are of deep and compelling interest to our audience and it would be extremely unfair

not to give John Pahoritz a bite at that apple. So we are going to postpone that conversation

until Monday. That's a tease. You all got to tune back in on Monday. And the meantime,

there's plenty of other stuff for us to get to and talk about. Of course, we wanted to get

briefly into what we feel like are some of the 2020 themes that are just sort of floating

under the radar, the sort of stuff that we thought would be of much more importance to not just

to the general election voters, but primary voters, especially activist wing, democratic and

republican primary voters that just have seemed to sort of fizzle over the course of this news cycle.

And Christine, you saw something interesting along these lines in Axios today, correct?

Yes, there's, there's Alex McCammand has a great short piece about how the supposed me to

election that we're supposed to have in 2020 isn't, is fizzling. So in 2018, you know, a lot of the,

a lot of the enthusiasm about the Me Too movement did bring out more female voters and more female

candidates, but we're not, we're certainly not seeing that with the democratic presidential primary

contenders. Christian Gillibrand obviously is the one who has made being a woman and being a mother,

a centerpiece of her election campaign. However, she also has the dramatic baggage of being the first

person to shove Al Franken out of the Senate. So what's interesting to me is that there have been

plenty of steady, you know, there was a rate, another rape allegation against President Trump by a

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