Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today's Tuesday April 4th.

I'm John Pluthortz, the editor of commentary magazine.

Remind you, we will not be doing shows Thursday and Friday to commemorate Passover with me

as always, executive editor, a Greenwald Hyab, media commentary columnist, an American

Enterprise Institute senior fellow Christine Rosen, Hykristine.

Hi, John.

So at the American Enterprise Institute and our Washington commentary columnist, Matthew

Kahnetti.

Hi, Matt.

Hi, John.

Before we get to the three ring circus that will be taking place in a New York City courtroom

later today, it is important to note that this is also the day in which we are going to

get a very interesting reading on the ideological culture war over crime and abortion and

various other things into neighboring Midwestern states, a Chicago mayoral runoff and the Wisconsin

state Supreme Court race in which more money has been spent trying to secure that position

on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is the, I guess, the hinged voter on a divided

court.

Then in any state Supreme Court race in American history, very clear ideological divides

here in the Wisconsin race.

We have a Republican named Kelly and a Democrat named Protazoids very much aligned with either

part of the ideological spectrum.

And in Chicago, we have one of these kind of bloombergian figures Paul Vales, former

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