Tariffs and Other Bad Things

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Hard to argue with the data: Things have taken a turn against the GOP as the midterm elections approach. We discuss how, and why, and what it might mean, and why tariffs are bad, and other stuff. Source

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0:00.0	Music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday, July 26, 2018.
0:29.2	I am John Pudhord, the editor of commentary, the 77 year old monthly of intellectual analysis, political,
0:35.6	provident, cultural criticism from the government conservative perspective, you can join us at
0:40.1	commentarymagazine.com where we give you a few free reads and you know the rest 1995 digital
0:46.6	20 man 95 all access beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year. What you may not have
0:54.7	heard or you may have only heard a couple of times so I'm going to tell you now this is the last time we
0:59.7	are going to done you to say that on July 30 Monday at the village undergrad at the comedy seller
1:06.3	in Greenwich Village we will be recording a live version of this podcast that you can attend for
1:12.3	$12 go to commentarymagazine.com slash live podcast to reserve your ticket. There's also a two drink
1:18.8	minimum from the comedy seller so that they get some money back to ticket sales have been brisk we
1:26.4	still have some more go there commentarymagazine.com slash live podcast we will see you Monday 6 p.m. at the
1:33.2	comedy seller if you do this and if you don't do it we won't see you and maybe we'll do it somewhere else
1:39.2	where maybe you can come find us at some other point anyway with me as always a green walled senior editor
1:45.5	hi john no wroth my associate hi no hi john our fancy pants senior writer sorobamari is in
1:52.3	London gal eventing around doing some kind of radio documentary for bbc12 or or ESPN the Ocho
2:01.0	or whatever so he's not with us today to be the pushback the best pushback we could have had
2:11.3	against the theme that we have developed for today's podcast which is trump at the Republicans in
2:17.3	trouble so I think it's fair to say after some false evidence that the Helsinki
2:27.2	Europe trips did not hurt trump that all the data this week suggests that they heard him and they
2:34.2	may have heard the Republicans and that this may be dovetailing into as we approach the election
2:41.8	growing signs that the Republican Party is cruising for a bruising in November 2018 so let's just go
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