Massie Exodus

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🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today we discuss Thomas Massie's loss in the Kentucky primary and Trump prioritizing loyalty at the potential cost of election defeats. Plus, actor Javier Bardem and director Laszlo Nemes trading comments on being pro-Palestinian in entertainment, the Islamic Center shooting in San Diego, and what it will take to rout out the disease of antisemitism. Check out our sponsor over at https://strawberry.me Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the best.
0:07.0	Expect the words.
0:10.0	Some reach and pain.
0:12.0	Some die of furze.
0:14.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:18.0	Oh for the best, expect the worst. Welcome to the Comment and spend the worst.
0:20.9	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily
0:24.8	podcast. Today is
0:26.7	Wednesday. What is
0:28.8	the date? May 20th.
0:31.4	May 20th.
0:33.1	20th. I'm John Pahortz, the editor of
0:34.9	Commentary Magazine with me as always.
0:47.1	I will introduce her first today, rarely, because she did make an important intervention here in terms of the date. Washington Free Beacon Editor Eliana Johnson. Hi, Eliana.
0:48.8	Hi, John. Rarely. Eliana makes lots of important interventions on this podcast. Very important interventions. And so do you. And that would be, of course,
0:55.7	social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. We're just all upside down here. So we then have to go with
1:02.4	senior editor Seth Mandel. Oh, wait, you have to say hi, Christine, so I can say hi, Christine.
1:06.5	I can say hi Christine. People care about the ritual here. They do. Hi, Christine. Hi, John.
1:11.8	Senior editor of Seth Mandel. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel.
1:13.3	Hi, Seth.
1:14.7	Hi, John.
1:15.5	And you know, Christine is our norms defender.
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