Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Tuesday, June 9th, 2020. I am John Pudhort. The editor of Commentary Magazine,

with me is always senior editor Abe Greenwald. Hey Abe. Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John.

An associate editor, Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. So among the many images of madness that

gripped us over the last 24 hours, we had congressmen and democratic congressmen and congresswomen

in the, somewhere in the halls of the Capitol kneeling in this kind of configuration. I don't know

quite how to describe what we were looking at. It was sort of like the college of Cardinals

in some kind of array or something like that. And then we had this is not was not really an image,

but the governor of Kentucky and the Bashir announcing that due to his, the raising of his consciousness

about the dangers of systemic racism, he was now a supporter of universal health care for black people.

Not, not, I mean, apparently he's probably for universal health care, but he wanted let it be known

that he was going to work for universal health care for black people because systemic racism

led them to averse health consequences. Thus making him the first politician in many, many years

to essentially openly advocate a separate but unequal racial policy of providing benefits. And

this is the paranoid conservative populist fear about social programs, right? That people often

have to address when they are talking about them that like food stamps only go to African Americans

or remember the whole thing about the Obama phone, which was a subsidy for for the purchase of a cell

phone. And it was said that that was something that only went to African Americans. That is not

the way the laws are written or can be applied or administered or any such thing. And so that is,

that is not the way things work, including with food stamps and all kinds of things. But that is the

fear that often is expressed by people who vote on the right that somehow benefits are going unequally

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