What Is the Proper Level of Crippling Despair?

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🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Here’s the good news: The House Republican conference voted overwhelmingly against punishing Rep. Liz Cheney for her vote to impeach Donald Trump in defiance of the GOP’s populist wing. Here’s the bad news: That same conference also gave Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a standing ovation and is disinclined to anathematize her conspiratorial paranoia. So, is everything completely terrible or just really bad? The COMMENTARY podcast debates the proper level of despair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday, February 4th, 2021.
0:29.3	I'm John Pajor, it's the editor of commentary with us after a day's pause, executive editor
0:36.9	Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.
0:38.4	Hi John.
0:39.4	Senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine.
0:42.2	Hi John.
0:43.2	An associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah.
0:45.8	Hi John.
0:46.8	Thank you guys for those reviews on iTunes.
0:49.8	Keep them coming if you haven't done it yet.
0:51.6	It's really helpful.
0:52.8	It's really nice.
0:53.8	It's really ego burnishing, even though there's a lot of comments about how obnoxious I am.
0:59.3	But I am willing to suffer the slings and arrows of you listeners in order to improve our
1:06.5	position in the iTunes store.
1:08.9	So keep it coming, call me obnoxious.
1:12.6	That's all well and good.
1:15.3	So it was the best of times and it was the worst of times or it was the worst of times
1:19.8	it was the best of times last night in behind closed doors at the Republican House conference
1:26.2	where in a moment of consuming despair for all people who have a brain, House Minority
1:38.1	Leader Kevin McCarthy said that he had accepted an apology from QAnon curious to friendly
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