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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday, June 8, 2020. I am John

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Senior writer Christine Rosem. Hi Christine.

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And associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. How are you?

Hi John. I'm well.

Good. Well, unlike the country, you are well. The country is not well. The country is reeling into

three, four, five different directions. And I think we need to start with the radicalization

of American politics that is occasioned by the move, apparently the move of the Minneapolis

city council to provide a veto proof majority for a plan to abolish, abolish, not defund,

not reorganize, not reimagine, but to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department. Minneapolis is a

city of 425,000 people. It is the 46 largest city in the United States. And if

it's elected political leaders, not its mayor, who we saw being abused by a mob in Minneapolis

for saying he was not a supporter of the abolition of the police department, though he was

elected on a platform of radical change to the police department, basically being shouted down

and having people scream shame, shame, shame like he was the naked Cersei in Game of Thrones

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