Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

Today is Wednesday, August 5th, 2020. I'm John Poghord. It's the editor of

commentary magazine with me is always executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hey Abe.

Hi John. Associate editor Noa Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. And senior writer

Christine Rosen-Heikristeem. Hi John. So there were primary elections in

various places yesterday and the most significant event it seems to me is that

Bill Clay of St. Louis, a 10 term Republican Democratic congressman who was

himself the son of a 30, I believe 30 year Democratic congressman was

ousted in a primary by a squad, a squadish person. And this is significant

because Clay is relatively speaking a moderate, friendly to Israel, and sort of

like a deal maker and his, the person who bested him, Cory Bush is a, somebody

who basically was created by Black Lives Matter in Missouri and is, you know,

everything that you would expect her to be with that as her originating political

birth moment, Bernie Sanders endorser, and you know, and sort of somebody who was

expected to join the squad. If you add her to Jamal Bowman and in New York and

various other people, we have seven primary Democrat incumbents in the house

defeated by leftist insurgents in this cycle alone. So the deep, the Tea Party

dynamic that overtook the Republican Party in 2010 has now basically become a

significant factor in the Democratic Party in which more ideologically extreme

new politicians, anti-politicians of principle are coming in and sweeping away

old deal making, more traditional politicians. And of course that then puts the

fear of God into everybody who remains that they are, that they are susceptible

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