Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast.

Today is Thursday July 23rd 2020. Happy birthday. You're who to come. And this is John

Puthworth, the editor of commentary here with me as always executive editor Abe

Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John.

And associate editor and no arosman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John. So once again, I'm going to

ask our listeners to email us a podcast of commentary magazine.com. Tell us what

you'd like us to be talking about. Suggest some topics. Ask us some trivia

questions. Whatever. We want to mix things up a little bit and vary our topics. And I

was saying to to to the crew yesterday that I felt like we were getting trapped in in

no exit or the movie, the exterminating angel in which we're just sort of sitting around

having the same conversation in the same place about the same things every day. And that

I'm worried that there's a there's a kind of nightmarish sameness to these conversations.

So we're going to try to try to mix them up. And so in an effort to try to mix it up,

we thought that rather than talking about the virus numbers and this and Trump, to reciting

five words and all of that, we would try to talk a little about what this conversation

that is taking place about federal law enforcement expressing itself in in in localities, primarily

Portland, but we just heard that the president is intending to extend federal involvement to

Chicago and albacurkey. And the reaction to this being that this is somehow the harbinger

is an example of fascism or the harbinger of coming fascism. And just how a historical

this is and preposterous in in my view, but understandable at the same time. So we'll describe

why it's preposterous and why it's understandable and how these things work in tandem. Noah as

our resident expert on social justice warfare and and Tifa and various other things, give us a

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