Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Tuesday January 12th, 2021.

I am John Pothoor. It's the editor of commentary with me as always Senior writer Christine Rosen

high Christine. Hi John. Executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi John. And associate editor

Noah Rothman high Noah. Hi John. You guys know the famous definition of of the word

Hutzpah, which is the the man who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy

of the court because he is an orphan. I am seeing a great deal of Hutzpah in calls from

the Trumpian right on Joe Biden and the Democrats essentially to show mercy and to bring unity

going forward. What kind of unity is this that Biden and the Democrats are proposing when

they are talking about impeachment that's not unifying. People who supported or did not

attack or did not fight against the disunity that Donald Trump introduced into our political

system not just from 2016 onward but after the election in November that he lost fair

and square by the exact same electoral total that he won in 2016 and that it was incumbent

upon him both as a leader and as a human being not to play this losers game but he did

and so tickled in some quarters and terrified of him and other quarters and terrified of

his voters in other quarters were enormous numbers of Republicans a tiny fraction of

him elected Republicans a tiny fraction of whom likely believed that the election was

stolen in the way that Trump talked about it because you know there are idiots among other

things that now they have the nerve to try to fight against the argument that Trump should

be impeached to remove on the grounds that this is not going to contribute to national unity

in the wake of a crisis that Trump himself promulgated instigated incited and effectively

led that's a good one. I understand the passion on the part of your argument John and

what I'm about to say is extremely impopular but why stop now. It is incumbent upon Democrats

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