Flaking Out While Drinking a White Russian

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🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Abe, Noah, and John come together for the last COMMENTARY podcast of the week to discuss the retirement of Jeff Flake and his attack on Donald Trump’s violation of norms: Can you really say the man who wins the presidency is a political aberration. We then consider the schadenfreude of the Right at learning of the Clinton campaign’s hidden role in trying to dig up dirt on Trump in Russia—and... Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.
0:28.7	Today is Thursday October 26, 2017. I am John Pudhor, it's the editor of
0:35.3	commentary magazine, the almost 73 year old monthly of intellectual
0:40.8	probity, political analysis and cultural criticism from a conservative
0:44.6	perspective. You can join us at commentarymagazine.com where we give you a few
0:49.3	free reads and then ask you to subscribe 1995 gets you a digital subscription.
0:54.4	And guys, I think I'm going to get this right today. 2995 gets you an all-access
0:59.0	subscription including our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a
1:05.3	year with me as always a Greenwald or senior editor. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. And
1:10.2	nor Rothman or associate editor. Hi Noah. Hi, John. So guys, the big question in
1:17.6	American politics this week with the announcement by Senator Jeff Flake of
1:25.0	Arizona that he would not seek reelection following hard along Senator Bob
1:29.7	Quarker of Tennessee not seeking reelection is are these two Flake anti-Trump
1:37.2	from the beginning and Quarker anti-Trump after he didn't get the Secretary of
1:41.6	State job or something through 2017 are these self-chosen retirements
1:50.8	indicative of the fact that the Republican party is now the party of Trump and
1:57.4	that voices inside the party raised against him in any way shape or form are no
2:03.2	longer capable of securing the support of the Republican conservative Republican
2:12.3	body politic that wins you primaries. This is a very unusual situation. In
2:18.2	Cummins are almost never defeated. We had a couple of occasions in 2010 when it
2:26.5	looked like the incumbent Arlen Specter was going to go down to defeat in a
2:31.5	primary and switched parties went from Republican to Democrat because he did
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