Welcome to Beg to BEEFER, The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the

political spectrum. We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona

Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor The Bullwork, and I'm joined

by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution

in the Wall Street Journal, Linda Chavez of the Nisk Cannon Center, and Damon Linker,

who writes the sub-stack newsletter, Eyes on the Right.

Our special guest this week is political scientist Rui Tushera,

whose work can be found on the sub-stack newsletter,

the liberal patriot, among other places.

So thanks to everyone for being here this week.

We're recording when we've got just a few days until the voting on Tuesday.

Of course, a lot of people are early voting as well.

And President Biden delivered a controversial speech

about the danger to democracy and it has stirred a debate

that I'd like to hear all of your views on. Josh Barrow for example who has

guest hosted this podcast in the past wrote a piece taking issue with the whole

idea of the speech and he said and I quote when Democrats talk about democracy they're talking about the importance of institutions

that ensure that voters get a say among multiple choices and the one they most prefer gets to

rule.

And he says, but what Biden is doing is telling them they really

only have one choice available and he says this amounts to telling voters that

they have already lost their democracy. So I have some views on this but I'm going to

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