Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday, July 22, 2019.

I'm John Pajor, the editor of commentary magazine, the 70 out of your old

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senior editor A Greenwald hello A Greenwald hello John Pajart and associate

editor Noah Rothman hi Noah hi John and in Washington senior writer Christine

Rosen hello Christine hi John so we could talk about the heat we could talk about

the upcoming Mueller testimony we could talk about the continuing American

puzzlement over how to commemorate the Apollo 11 moon landing but looking at

various numbers including Trump's rising poll numbers and some other

interesting numbers in the Democratic race we decided we would throw all that

aside and simply posit the following question which we have been circling

around for months which is are the Democrats so crazy that they are going to

hand the 2020 election to Trump on a silver platter this was really occasioned

in my mind by the story that came out end of last week or that the San

Francisco education department apparently the city of San Francisco has its own

education department that I get what like New York does too so voted unanimously

to paint over they seem to love doing this in San Francisco to paint over a

mural of George Washington and asked why they would paint over a mural of

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