Joey!

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

September first we made it we made it to September. I'm John Pajor it's the

editor of Commentary Magazine. We're turning today not only our beloved

colleague associate editor author of Rise of the New Puritans but also the

person who generally produces the podcast and in his absence we only had one

horrible technical disaster that led us to not have a podcast one of the days so

I take that as progress also let me before I introduce him thank Scott

Imorgot of Rick and Shay for producing the podcast in his absence but here he

is back again Noah Rothman. Hi Noah. Hi John very grateful to Scott as well

thank you. I'm happy to be back when I left a week ago everybody was talking

about Trump and Mara Lagas. I'm glad that's over. Yeah yeah yeah we've moved on

we've moved on from that it's really exciting you know to be trapped like the

characters in Sartre Snow exit in the perpetual brain cavity of Donald Trump's

psychosis paranoia and lokiness also with us of course executive editor a

Greenwald Hyab. Hi John. And media commentary columnist and American Enterprise

Institute fellow as of today officially Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John.

So yeah we'll get to Trump in a minute but some offshoots of the Trump

center place in the center of our news we have the first Democratic

congressman in an Alaska district in 50 years elected last night in part as a

result of ranked choice voting but also in part because nobody wanted to

vote for Trump's preferred candidate and the proto Trump that of course

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