This Will Get Out of Control

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The madness continues, with the Antifa suspect in a point-blank assassination of a Trump supporter shot dead by federal marshals as police officers find themselves in the crosshairs in various cities—and Donald Trump is accused of calling dead Americans who served and died for their country “losers.” We talk about what it all means—and why you should watch “Cobra Kai” on Netflix—on today’s podcast. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. This is Friday September 4th, 2020. I am
0:29.8	John Pudhor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always. Senior writer Christine
0:34.4	Rose and Hyde Christine. Hi John. Executive editor Abe Greenwald Hyde. Hi John and associate
0:40.1	editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John. So in the crushing morocity Olympics we have it's very,
0:47.2	it's a photo finish for today's podcast between the the shooting of Michael Raynell in Northwest
0:58.8	Washington state. The guy who was wanted in connection with the point blank shooting and killing
1:06.1	of a Trump supporter during a confrontation between Antifa and Trump supporters last weekend.
1:14.5	In Cleveland a cop was shot and killed in DC a cop was shot. There were a couple of other police
1:26.8	things that were it appeared that people were targeting police just in the last 24 hours.
1:34.8	And we have this Atlantic story alleging that with with anonymous sourcing that Donald Trump called
1:44.6	the dead in graveyards, military graveyards, losers and and didn't know why they deserve to be
1:52.6	celebrated for having gotten themselves into the fix that they were in.
1:58.3	So it's really a great morning to have a conversation about the future of this country and the
2:05.2	conditions under which we are heading into this election in two months. Having summarized it in this
2:14.1	deeply deeply winning way as we go into the holiday weekend. Christine, which of these events
2:21.1	strikes you as the most depressing and the least amenable or susceptible to sweet reason and
2:30.4	the possibility of change. And I'm the optimist on the podcast. I just want to point out but I actually
2:35.0	I'm going to choose the death of the killing of the Antifa murderer, which is what he was for two
2:43.5	reasons. We think we think. I mean we're pretty sure. Well so here's what concerns me short in
2:49.3	the short term. It was an example of how something we've talked about on the podcast in many
2:55.0	contexts in recent months, which is the lack of the ability of local officials in some of these places
3:02.4	to contain violence. So this was a guy who had been previously arrested for carrying an illegal
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