Peter Pan Socialism

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🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Our friend Noah Rothman joins us today to discuss the demographics of New York's primary election results, and how voting for socialists is an expression of perpetual childhood. Plus, The ongoing breakdown of relations between President Trump and the republican senate caucus, and a check-in on the situation in the Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the best.
0:09.0	Welcome to the best and spend the worst.
0:20.9	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast. Today is Thursday, June 25th, 2026. I am John Pudhor. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always. Senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. Washington Free Beacon editor, Eliana Johnson.
0:38.9	Hi, Eliana.
0:39.9	Hi, John.
0:40.7	And joining us today, the founder of the Commentary Magazine podcast, senior editor at National
0:47.0	Review, and author of the newly released book, Blood and Progress, Noah Rothman.
0:53.7	Hi, Noah. Hi, John. Noah, I want to start by bringing
0:58.7	up blood and progress and offering a comforting theory about what happened in New York on Tuesday,
1:13.3	but maybe it's just delusional.
1:15.7	I'm here for it. I could use some comfort. So blood in progress is the story of the rise of the use of political violence on the left
1:23.1	in the United States over the past quarter century and the default to political violence by people
1:30.9	on particularly on the left.
1:33.2	A century and a quarter.
1:35.5	A century and a quarter.
1:36.4	But I mean, but the present day period
1:40.8	that you focus on begins in sort of 1999
1:44.0	and then you move forward from there.
1:46.2	A lot of people say that the reason in the United States that we have not had political violence
1:52.0	as has been a common root in other countries is that we have a representative political system
1:58.2	through which our disagreements and sometimes our really,
2:02.2	really florid disagreements can be addressed, dealt with, and then move on to actual political
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