A Right-Wing Revolt

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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COVID-19 cases are rising around the nation, but it is increasingly difficult to get a sense of the pandemic from a media culture that is invested in wrapping the data up in a political narrative. Also, Donald Trump faces a revolt from his right flank amid sagging poll numbers. Can he run an effective campaign against Joe Biden, and what would it look like? Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:26.7	Today is Friday, June 26th, 2020.
0:29.8	I'm John Puthhordz, the editor of Commentary with this, the 500 and first commentary magazine podcast with me as always.
0:38.2	Senior writer, Christine Rosen, hi Christine.
0:41.4	Hi John.
0:42.6	Associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah.
0:45.4	Hi John.
0:46.1	And newly minted executive editor of Commentary, a Greenwald, hi Abe.
0:50.8	Hi John.
0:51.9	So Abe, in your August position as executive editor,
0:55.8	I'm going to ask you to try, we're going to try to sort of disentangle the strands of confusion surrounding the spike in coronavirus cases that has led Governor Abbott in Texas to pause Texas's reopening has led Miami.
1:13.9	I believe to shut down its bars and is there are hints and indications that at least in Arizona hospitalizations are getting to be
1:24.9	possibly going to start reaching crisis levels.
1:28.8	However, these numbers don't entirely, the prudence of the politicians notwithstanding.
1:35.8	I'm not sure that the numbers should be viewed as any reason to panic unless what you really want is to put a shiv in the side of the politicians who didn't lock down their states in March.
1:51.0	Well, there's a lot of that shiv going on, not least from New York's governor, Andrew Koma, who's been wagging his finger at Florida for weeks now and talking about an in fact quarantining people from other states who he claims have not reopened intelligently or smartly, as he sometimes says.
2:17.4	Yeah, I think what's happening is that there is an on you're going to unavoidably see a rise in infections in places that did not have a spike.
2:29.4	By the way, this is true not only for the US and states, but this is true for Germany, which which did this wonderful effort of keeping cases really low numbers for very long time.
2:43.0	They reopened and now they are closing counties because there are a rise of several thousand cases suddenly they're spiking.
2:51.1	I think what is happening here is kind of like to use a less than august metaphor.
2:59.7	It's when you are going to get sick or vomit, you can try to keep it down.
3:08.4	You sort of breathe through it, you close your eyes, but that doesn't actually stop it from happening.
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