I commit that I will, in fact, pick a woman to be Vice President.

There are a number of women who are qualified to be President tomorrow.

I would pick a woman to be my Vice President.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Eglaceus here today with Ezra Klein.

We are going to talk about the deep stakes, the great political journalism summer cliche,

because the time is right for that.

But first, we do want to delay that a little bit and make you listen to some more public

policy talk.

And, you know, something that I was interested in is that Ross Douthet did this column,

which I think would annoy some people because it was coming from Ross Douthet, who's

a conservative, who maybe doesn't actually care about this stuff.

But voicing concerns that, you know, I associate with sort of African American leftists,

like Adolf Reed or Central Johnson, which was that the sort of racial politics, the outpouring

of people in the streets, but also in social media and in the corporate world on behalf

of Black Lives Matter, represents at least on some level a co-optation by corporate America

of progressive energy in a way that you didn't see when young people were rallying for Bernie

Sanders, for example, who was talking about economic justice.

And, you know, I mean, I think there's, there's like a number of different ways in which

you could view this.

I mean, if you look at the actual protest leaders, they do, of course, have a very sort of robust

social and economic justice agenda.

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