Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your weekly Libertarian podcast from the magazine that's

doing better this morning than Yankee fans.

I am Matt Welch, joined by Nicholas B. Peter Suderman and Pinch Hitting for Gimpy, Katherine

Manku Ward, and none other than Fiona, Herrick and Good Morning, pals.

Hello.

Hey, Matt.

Happy Monday.

There you go.

Peter's been working on this pronunciation of Rushi Rishi Suneck, right?

I've already either that or he is, he is really on some kind of super Saturday.

This, you know, it's not, it's not either or never is.

The UK, UK has a prime, a new prime minister as badly mentioned already.

We'll talk about that a little later in the proceedings, but first, let's get to what

everybody on this side of the pond is yammering about, and that's the upcoming midterm elections

by everybody.

I do mean actor, director Rob Reiner, who on Sunday tweeted, in the next 16 days, Americans

will decide if we want to remain a constitutional democracy or live under fascism.

I have voted for democracy.

If you agree, vote blue.

Meathead aside, there's just a ton of apocalyptic rhetoric going around in the media right

now.

That's a story in an MSNBC regular Jason Stanley, this very morning, we do this on Monday,

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