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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Monday, June 29th, 2026. I am John Pott Hortz, the editor of Commentary Magazine. With me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. And senior editor, Seth Mendel. Hi, Seth.

Hi, John. So much to talk about, not much has changed from the earthquake news last week of the

victory, primary victories of the Democratic Socialists of America aligned candidates here

in New York and the victory a couple of weeks ago in the New Jersey primary of a terrorist

lover, Adam Hamawi.

Tomorrow in Colorado,

Minot Keros is a 29-year-old DSA, Hamas-loving,

refusing to condemn the murder of Jews' lawyer in Denver is trying to unseat a 15, 14-term incumbent,

progressive incumbent named Diana to get almost entirely on the grounds that she is insufficiently hateful toward Israel. So all weekend socially and, and, you know,

personally, I have been fielding, I've been participating in conversations about what is going

on and what do we do now and how big a story, how big is this? So, Abe, how big is this? It's enormous. I feel as if

it's broken through with the elections of a week or so ago people like us have

been on top of this as a as a sort of moving rolling gathering storm and now normies and the

mainstream are waking up to the reality.

And what I still don't know is if or when the lunacy of what's happening penetrates to the mainstream,

if they look at what's going on in the Democratic Party and say, this can't last, this can't

stand, where you have totally committed, on record, far left progressives who are simply being pushed out of what the

DSA considers polite company only because they aren't rageful enough toward Israel and the Jews.

Okay, so when I say how big is this, I also mean, so you're saying that you think

we are going to have a national conversation about what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable views of Israel Jews, the Jewish state, and other matters.

And one of the things that fascinates me, I mean, I think it's obviously not fascinating, horrifying,

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