Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

No way of knowing, which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst.

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Friday, May 3rd, 2024.

I am John Puthor.

It's the editor of Commentary magazine with me.

As always, the executive editor, A Greenwald,

Hi Abe.

Hi, John.

And senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth.

Hi, Seth. Hi, John.

Well, finally, Joe Biden came out of the Witness Protection Program sometime with an unscheduled

speech yesterday morning in which he dither and drambled for about two minutes and talked about free speech and how

important it was to him and then finally said, but you can't destroy property, you can't keep people from going to classes then he grudgingly used the word anti-Semitism and he said you know we need order and then somebody said do you want to bring in the National Guard and he said no and that was the end.

So on the one hand it is good that Joe Biden took a stand against the disorder and illegality and totalitarian tactics that are being and have been the watchword of the elite college campus for the last couple of weeks.

But to say that it was the least that he could do, it was the least that he could do.

And I think we should talk a little about this question of the least that he could do and I think we should talk a little about this question of the least that he could do because

Increasingly Democratic politicians who are the types that believe in occupying the center and Joe Biden wants to

occupy the center of the Democratic Party not the center of the American

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