Who Benefits from Urban Unrest?

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The COMMENTARY podcast debates the downstream political relevance of what increasingly looks to be a summer of urban unrest fueled by protests against the conduct of police toward racial minorities. Will Donald Trump’s efforts to frame himself as the champion of law and order reactivate his 2016 coalition? Or will these events simply compound a general sense of dissatisfaction with the status quo... Source

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0:00.0	Music
0:23.9	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday, May 29, 2020.
0:29.2	I am John Poghord's the editor of commentary to 70 odd year old monthly of
0:33.8	intellectual analysis political, property and cultural criticism from a
0:37.2	conservative perspective as always we invite you to join us at commentary
0:41.8	magazine.com where we give you a few free reads and ask you to subscribe our
0:46.8	June issue is up with all kinds of wonderful stuff with articles by associate
0:54.9	editor Noah Rothman high Noah and senior writer Christine Rosen
1:00.2	high Christine hi John all shepherded into print by senior editor Abe Greenwald
1:05.0	hi Abe hi John so we have the inedifying seconding horrifying spectacle of
1:13.5	Minneapolis on fire for the second or third straight night and rather like the
1:21.2	movie Rio Bravo or something like that a police station overrun and the
1:29.3	cops forced to flee the police station where rumor has it the four cops who
1:35.9	were involved in the horrible killing of George Floyd were stationed so my
1:48.2	there are various things to talk about including the larger political ramifications
1:53.0	of this but maybe we shouldn't go to the political ramifications first so where
2:02.3	should we go first I like political ramifications okay so here are the political
2:08.3	ramifications as I see them Donald Trump already started last night
2:14.9	involving himself in this matter actually two days ago tweeted his
2:21.5	condolences to the Floyd family and talked about how horrible the video was
2:26.7	which I think we can all agree on but then last night said the far left liberal
2:33.6	mayor of Minneapolis is weak and we are you know we're ready to involve the
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