Bungling the Good Things

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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When the Trump administration isn't doing unpopular things, it's doing popular things the wrong way. From bad actors abroad to the courts, we discuss the challenges the president is facing and the position he's put himself in. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some drink and pain, some die of thirst, the way of knowing which way it's going,
0:19.0	hope for the best Expect the worst
0:22.2	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast
0:27.2	Today is Friday, April 11th,
0:29.0	2025.
0:30.0	I am John Pudhorst, the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:33.2	With me, as always, executive editor,
0:35.5	Abe Greenwald.
0:36.1	Hi, Abe.
0:36.8	Hi, John.
0:38.5	Social commentary columnist Christinewald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen.
0:40.9	Hi, Christine.
0:42.0	Hi, John.
0:42.7	And senior editor, Seth Mandel.
0:44.3	Hi, Seth.
0:45.4	Hi, John.
0:46.6	We begin the holiday of Passover tomorrow night, and there is some news or hopeful news or delusional news, or penumbers and emanations,
1:00.2	that there might be a breakthrough with Hamas on hostages.
1:09.9	The reason that I am reporting or talking about this at all is that it seems
1:15.8	to be coming both from the Israelis and from the United States, thus making this an unusual
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