Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Wednesday, June 10th.

I am John Puthhordz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always. Associate editor Noah Rothman,

Hi Noah. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen, Hi Christine. Hi John. And senior editor,

A Greenwald Hi Abe. Hi John. So here is a question that I want to raise and we can go into detail

with an article, a stunning article today in the Washington Post that helped to clarify these

ideas for me. But what if what we're seeing here is a kind of mainstreaming and middle-classing

of the phenomenon that Tom Wolf called radical chic. That is to say, Radle chic was of course

the portrait of a party in 1970 at the home of Leonard Bernstein at which New York's most fashionable

show busy people were present for a presentation of the Black Panthers to to this kind of high

glam society. And you had this kind of cow-towing to the to these thugs and radicals by the

limousine liberal set. This is sort of where the idea of limousine liberalism first kind of gained

purchase. So what we see now is this radical increase in polling in the belief among white liberals

that racism is systemic that the country needs to do more that Black people, they now view Black

people more positively than white people. They view Black concerns as more important than other

concerns. And I just wonder whether this is a triumph, a sort of PR social triumph of the very

attitudes that Wolf was parading 50 years ago. Well, can I speak as since I'm a white woman and

I'm clearly, you know, I have to speak from my experience in all things. This is I'm saying this

sarcastically. The Washington Post article really was an intriguing moment of clarity because it's

interviewing obviously upper middle class white women who live in the suburb, you know, in parts of

Minneapolis that that were close enough to the riding and looting and destruction and mayhem of

the protests to be to raise their concern, but still far removed enough that they they could have

kind of, you know, tortured Facebook discussion groups about how they should feel about it.

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