Welcome to Beg to B featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

Well, we range from center left to center right,

not that big a political spectrum, but that's where we like it.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bull Work, and I'm joined by our regulars,

Bill Galston of the Wall Street Journal and the Brookings Institution, Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center and

Damon Linker who writes the sub-stack newsletter

Notes from the Middle Ground.

Our special guest this week is New York Times columnist Ross Dauphitt who has frequently been praised on

this podcast by Damon Linker who frequently cites his his columns and gives

some special attention.

So we thought it's only fair that we hear from you directly.

Plus, people have been telling me that we don't differ enough on Begg to differ.

So maybe we can get some differing going on where we stand with just a few

days until the 2024 election. Ross I have a feeling that even though you really dislike Trump, maybe you're not quite there in terms of being able to vote against him?

Where do you stand on all that?

First of all, thank you so much for having me.

It's always a pleasure to join any Bullwork podcast.

I'm a faithful, faithful reader of all, all Bullwork,

almost all Bullwork content.

And I'm glad to hear that Damon has such nice things to say about me on my group chats my

group chats are all very anti Damon Linker I should say it's like you know every

week it's like oh that guy again but so it's good it's good that you know

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