The Liberals Set Their Trump Trap

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🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The podcast crew takes up the idea that American liberals have collectively hit upon their closing message for the election: The GOP is the party of the disease. The question, then, is: Will they change their tune and their approach to the virus if their team wins on November 3? Give a listen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. I am John Pudhor. It's the editor of
0:28.4	Commentary Magazine today is Tuesday, October 13th, 2020, an important day in my family as it is my
0:36.8	18th anniversary and the 14th birthday of my daughter, Sheerie. So this is a it's an interesting
0:47.2	thing having an anniversary on the same day as your as your child's birthday because it seems
0:51.9	like it would be very special but actually a competition gets set up between how much time you
0:59.7	were going to focus on what and any time spent on the anniversary has been in the past deemed
1:10.7	hostile and hostile act toward the birthday. So she is now of sufficient age that this is no longer
1:18.0	the case but it's seemed like a great gift upon her birth that you know this had happened on
1:25.3	our anniversary very special very you know but as I say it turned out to be an interesting
1:33.1	complicated dynamic and but she's a wonderful kid and I have a wonderful marriage and I'm very
1:39.6	grateful today and I am happy to be celebrating this with my colleagues associated with
1:47.8	an O'Rourkeman high Noah. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen, high Christine. Hi John.
1:53.5	And executive editor Abe Greenwald, hi Abe. Hi John. Okay I wanted to throw something at you guys
2:00.0	that occurred to me really kind of last night as I was as I was falling asleep. So it's it's either
2:08.9	a brilliant insight you know of that sort of sort or it's or it's totally preposterous and it goes
2:15.4	like this. Whether or not it is certainly not a conspiracy or that you know people had a meeting and
2:25.2	sat down in the mainstream media and the Biden campaign and Democrats and and you know all of
2:30.8	America's liberals had a had a Zoom meeting at which they hit upon this strategy but I think is a
2:38.9	devastating strategy thing going on that may help explain why President Trump seems to be flailing
2:49.2	in the wake of his COVID diagnosis and why the COVID diagnosis was eerily helpful to the democratic
2:58.0	narrative surrounding the election and why it is spreading beyond as a super spreader beyond Trump
3:04.9	which is it's not just that the COVID diagnosis reminded everybody of the pandemic and the
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