Welcome to Beg to

Beg to Differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil

conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, indicated columnist and policy editor at the Bulwark, and I am joined

by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings

Institution and the Wall Street Journal and Damon Linker of the week. And sitting in

for Linda Chavez this week is my new Bulwerk colleague Kathy Young.

We're delighted to welcome Kathy and our special guest Jonathan Rouch, Senior Fellow in

Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and contributing editor to the Atlantic.

Welcome, one and all.

Well, regular listeners to Beg to Differ, know that we on this podcast really do enjoy getting into the weeds

on policy matters and pulling apart important matters of our time, giving our different perspectives on them and

unfortunately most of what happens in American politics these days

doesn't lend itself to that. Instead we have Crazy Town and the politics of

performance and kicking the other guy in the teeth. Exhibit A. Ron

Santos this week signed the so-called Don't Say Gay Bill.

Actually, that's not what it is.

It's the Parental Rights in Education Act.

But it is arguably a right-wing overreaction to a small problem.

So I'm going to go first to you, Damon, and have you sketch out what this is about and what you think of the law itself leaving aside

the misrepresentations of it.

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