Grief Transforms into Nihilism

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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The nation experienced a weekend of civil unrest, including COMMENTARY podcast host Christine Rosen whose home was on the frontlines of the violence. We discuss the conditions that have rocked the country to its foundations and the abdication of our political elites in a moment of chaos. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday June 1st, 2020.
0:29.6	I am John Pudhorets the editor of commentary magazine with me is always senior editor Abe Greenwald high Abe hi John
0:39.6	Associate editor no Rosman high Noah hi John and from Washington senior writer Christine Rosen who was directly
0:51.6	involved
0:53.2	in
0:54.4	last nights riding and looting
0:57.8	Christine you want to tell us what happened to you and your sons and everything sure not as it not as a participant in the riding and looting I
1:06.4	Yeah, no, I mean, I think what what happened to me last night happened to lots of people all over the DC
1:12.3	Which had a really really long and rough night
1:15.2	the
1:16.5	Mayor had issued a curfew pretty late in the day for 11 p.m. Which made no sense because the sun as soon as the sun said is when trouble started
1:25.2	the
1:26.8	Fairly peaceful protests have been going on around
1:30.2	The White House
1:31.4	became a lot more like riding than and destructive than than they had been early in the day when the sun went down and so I I live in George
1:38.8	Shown which according to
1:40.6	Twitter is is full of rich entitled white liberals. So I am none I am the white I'm white but other than that I'm
1:48.2	Not any of the rest of the things um
1:50.6	We had at 10 30 about half an hour before curfew
1:54.1	Several cars pulled up on our street and large groups of men got out of there with hoods and masks and and started heading towards
2:01.8	Wisconsin Avenue, which is a main commercial thoroughfare
2:05.3	About a block from my house
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