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The vast majority of Americans hate the choices both parties are presenting to them.

There's no external force to get them to sort of say, hey, you know what makes sense?

Don't nominate for the Democratic Party in New York, somebody who hates America, somebody who thinks Western civilization has got to go,

that thinks that Hamas was right on October 7th. You can go down an incredibly long list

of things that some of these candidates who won in New York believe. What we're seeing here is

the complete break from any conventional understanding of what a Washington politician is supposed to do, which is

represent their district. The only way to make change is to force change through a hostile takeover.

The form that this is taking is radicalization.

Thank you. taking is radicalization. It's 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 1st in New York City, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 1st in Israel.

Earlier this week, you heard part one of my conversation with Jonah Goldberg and John Pot Hortz on the autopsy of the Iran War. Now, heading

into the July 4th weekend and the 250th anniversary of our independence, we are releasing part

two of our conversation, which is not an autopsy,

but rather a state of play of these extraordinary times we are living through right now in

American politics, in American civic life, and in American history, especially as our politics

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