Hope for the best.

the worst.

Expect the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

A-a-furs.

No way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst.

Welcome to the

the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Wednesday, March 6th

2024. I'm John Butlerts, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe

Hi, John

Washington commentary columnist Matthew Connetty. Hi Matt. Hi John

And senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth. Hi, John. And senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth.

Hi, John. So Super Tuesday has come and gone.

It occurred to me yesterday that this was literally the least interesting Super Tuesday since the invention of Super Tuesday,

which I think happened in the late 80s, early 90s, as one of those superficially smart and long-term incredibly

destructive efforts to centralize the political choices in the United States to such an extent that the parties was one of the one of the main roads toward the destruction of the influence and importance of the parties, even though it seemed like almost the opposite was the case when you actually had primaries on their own schedules,

states deciding their own schedules and all of that.

You had many more opportunities for the grandees of the party to try to work their will to sideline people they didn't

like to get the parties to focus on the mainstream of their parties nationalizing the primary strengthened.

The more ideological voices in the party didn't weaken them and so we that brought us down the road to where we are now

which is a contest without a contest one party a single candidate simply getting you know

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