Oh, for the best, expect the worst, some preach the pain, some die of thirst, the way of

knowing which way it's going, oh for the best, expect the worst.

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

I am John Pudhoritz, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always, executive editor

Abe Greenwald-Hayab.

Hi, John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen, hi, Christine.

Hi, John.

And associate editor Noah Rothman, hi, John.

So it is primary day in America and it is also close to 24 hours after the explosion of

all democratic hopes, wishes and dreams in New York State as the special master appointed

to deal with the egregiously unconstitutional map that had been foisted upon the state

in the wake of redistricting that was an attempt to squeeze as many democratic seats as was

humanly possible out of the state delegation.

The map thrown out and the special master has now issued the new map that is incredibly

amusing for some of us.

My congressman, Gerald Nadler, finds himself in now in the same district as Carolyn Maloney,

both of them, you know, 578 years old, both of them in the congress for 35 to 40 years,

both of them intellectually, ideologically, interchangeable from neighborhoods that are

basically intellectually and ideologically interchangeable.

And yet, of course, they were, you know, the efforts were constantly being made to make

sure that they could both serve and now they have been shoved into the same district,

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