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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast. Today is Monday, November 8, 2021. I am John

Pudhord's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor

a Greenwald Hyde. Hi John, senior writer Christine Rosen,

high Christine, and associate editor Noir Rothman, Hi Noah. Hi John. Okay, so here's the question.

Do we have to eat crow or can we explain why we don't have to eat crow? We on Friday and much

of last week were taking happy victory laps about the disasters befalling woke policy and woke

politicians and the results of the Tuesday election and then late and talking about how Democrats

were in disarray and then late Friday night, the House Democrats along with 13 Republicans

passed the build the bipartisan infrastructure bill that had been languishing in the House

for three months after it passed the Senate again with 19 Republican votes back in August.

And and so there is a sense abroad that somehow we said this bill wouldn't pass and we

were wrong and now we are going to reap the whirlwind and America is going to be destroyed.

Noah, how do you take the extreme pessimism and anguish that seems to have erupted in

quarters on the right about the passage of the BIF as it came to be known for reasons

why you would want to name a bill after either Willie Lomonds idiot loser son or after the

villain and back to the future, I don't know, but nonetheless BIF passed. So let's let's

try to analyze what happened here. Yeah, I find it absolutely inexplicable the level

of apoplexy on the right. I can only think that after Tuesday's results, everybody got

a little greedy and imagined that everything would stop dead in its tracks. At no point,

John, you suggested that we said that this bill would not pass. I never said that.

No, I never said that. For months and months and months, we have been saying there's no

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