Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs the way of knowing which way it's going

hope for the best expect the worst of the best I'm going to the

to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

We are in August.

It is August 1st, 2024.

I'm John Potthoritz, the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.

Hi, John.

And media commentary columnist Christine, hi Christine. Hi, Christine.

Hi, John.

Okay, a few corrections notes, very important

corrections to be made.

I have garbled, I garbled my godfather references yesterday so I think it's very important I've

been getting texts and emails all day I said that Mo Green was shot in the eye in a barber shop and I still believe that the

that he was in the innards of a barber shop. However, he was actually shot on a massage table, which I believe was inside a barber shop. Nonetheless, I've said he was shot on a massage table.

Barzini was not shot in a revolving door,

but rather on the steps of a cathedral.

And it was Kunoo not a barzini who was shot in the revolving door and so this is the these are the mistakes that I made this is very important because this of course is canon text very important and

I've now made these corrections. I apologize deeply for my errors. And now let us discuss the question that is that has been at the forefront of the American discussion since yesterday afternoon, which is,

did Donald Trump make an error, a terrible error, a career ending error, an error that will deny him the presidency a second time in his

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