Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday June 24th, 2021

I am John Puthor, it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor a brainwalled hi-a

hi John

senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine

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and associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah

hi John

so

a lot of weird stuff is going on in Washington

that all indicates the extent of democratic emotional, political and psychological overreach

and the blowback from it

we have of course earlier this week the failure of the voting rights bill or the voting extension

whatever you want to call it the voting bill the elections bill that we are told means the

the end of our democracy that this patently unconstitutional I mean much of it patently

unconstitutional legislation not passing means that our democracy is over and we now have

a very weird political circumstance in which an agreement has been struck among 10 moderates

republicans and democrats on an infrastructure bill if you remember the first proposal for

infrastructure they involved $2 trillion in new spending two new all new spending $2 trillion

so this this bill after months of negotiation the framework for this proposal apparently has

about $600 billion in new spending and removes from the bill all of this stuff that was going to

add up to somewhere between two and four trillion dollars the stuff where we've been joking about how

things are now being called infrastructure that are not infrastructure you know child care this

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