The Mechanics of 'Popularism'

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A discussion about the lingering and unknowable negative health effects of mid-pandemic mitigation measures that may not even be fully visible to us for years. Also, the center-left’s new obsession with the political strategist David Shor and his prescription for Democratic success: “popularism.”

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0:00.0	For the best, expect the worst.
0:10.7	Some preach a day, some die of thirst.
0:14.8	The way of knowing, which way is going.
0:18.8	Over the best, expect the worst.
0:23.9	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:26.8	Today is Wednesday, October 13th, 2021.
0:30.1	I am John Pothoor.
0:31.3	It's the editor of Commentary Magazine here to tell you
0:35.1	that our November issue we are closing today
0:37.5	and we'll be sending to the printer.
0:38.9	And we are very proud of it.
0:41.2	It's one of the best issues we've ever done.
0:43.1	It is a special issue dedicated to
0:46.2	wokeness.
0:47.3	Woke the threat is the overall
0:53.2	report for the package.
0:57.2	Some of the articles in it include Sam Abrams and Jack
1:01.0	Worthheimer on the Woke Threat to America's Jews
1:05.4	Wilford Riley on the whiteness of wokeness.
1:10.0	David Zucker, the director of airplane and the director
1:16.5	of scary movie and other great comic masterpieces
1:21.6	on the threat to comedy from wokeness.
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