The Left Loses in Court and Wins a Primary

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🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The Supreme Court’s decision this morning on public-sector labor unions is a dagger blow to the political ambitions of the Left, and raises the possibility of a kind of despair that could lead leftists in very dark directions. At the same time, an unexpected primary victory for a socialist in New York City might kindle new hopes of a leftist renaissance. And some words on the funeral of Charles... Source

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0:00.0	A
0:06.9	Welcome to The Commentary magazine podcast today is Wednesday
0:22.8	June 27th 2018 we're doing this a day early. Sorry to confuse
0:29.7	everybody's schedule. I'm John Poghoritz, the editor of Commentary
0:36.5	magazine, the 70-some-year-old monthly of intellectual analysis, this political
0:39.6	property and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective. We invite
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0:58.8	a year. I am in Chicago Illinois today with me in our offices senior editor Abe
1:03.4	Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Senior writer Sora Bammari down the hall from Abe. Hi.
1:09.8	Hello John. And in his palatial New Jersey estate, Noah Rothman, our associate
1:16.4	editor. Hi Noah. How are you John? So we are yes we are in many different areas of
1:23.6	America trying to sort through the current confused political condition. So
1:31.6	why don't we start very quickly with the breaking news this morning of a
1:37.9	Supreme five four Supreme Court decision in the case known as as Janice in which
1:42.9	the Supreme Court has now held that public sector unions cannot compel their
1:50.7	members to pay dues for political activity. And this is a major finding with
1:57.6	enormous long-term political ramifications. It overturns in 1977 Supreme Court
2:09.4	decision, fascinating decision that I boned up on last night in which one of the
2:15.6	major reasons that the court found that it was okay for public sector unions to
2:22.0	collect this money unwillingly from from their rank and file members was to
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