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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday April 18th 2019.

I am John Pudhor. It's the editor of commentary the 20 70 odd year old monthly of

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including our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year we

have just closed our may issue which I believe is online today or was on

line yesterday and the three of us in this room associate editor Noah Rothman

Hainoa and senior writer editor Abe Greenwald Hyab Hyjan Christine Rosen

off today have the sort of share the lead article the lead of the issue the

cover line is the Democrats are going crazy Noah's peace examines the pent-up

policy madness of the left having spent pretty much eight almost nine years in

the wilderness in policy terms after Obama's loss of the house in 2010 and what

this has meant in terms of their wish listing of ideas that are so far out of

the mainstream that they in they endanger the Democrats position Abe has

written our neurotic politics about how most of what we talk about now in

politics has literally nothing to do with the problems that ordinary people

face but are all either symbolic or or kind of what you call reflected their

reflections of the real matters that politics can't handle and I've written a

piece about how the Democrats are crazy so basically I don't know or are they

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