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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

DOGE Soldiers

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

If you want to move fast and break things, the problem is that you may break things you want—and you'll look sloppy, careless, and incompetent in the process. Is that what's happening with DOGE and Elon Musk? And what on earth is New York state Kathy Hochul doing with this idea she should "remove" the duly elected mayor of New York City? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hope for the best.

0:08.0

Expect the worst.

0:10.0

Some drink champagne.

0:13.0

Some die of thirst.

0:15.0

The way of knowing which way it's going.

0:19.0

Hope for the best.

0:20.0

Expect the worst., for the best, expect the worst.

0:22.4

Oh, for the best.

0:24.7

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.

0:27.5

Today is Tuesday, February 18th, 2020.

0:30.5

I'm John Pudhor.

0:31.4

It's the editor of Commentary Magazine,

0:33.3

letting you know that the entire content of our March issue

0:36.3

are up at

0:37.9

Commentary.org lead story. I got to say is by me. It's called Trump 2,

0:42.6

the good, the bad, and the ugly. You can figure out what I mean by those phrases.

0:47.7

And maybe after I introduce everybody, we'll talk a little about Christine Rosen's piece

0:53.2

in the issue. Before I introduce

0:56.0

Christine Rosen, I will introduce, of course, Executive Editor, A Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John.

1:01.0

Senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. And the aforementioned Christine Rosen,

1:05.8

the social commentary columnist and AEI senior fellow. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. Now, Christine, you have in your

1:12.9

social commentary column a piece that has been, in my reckoning, since I basically had my first

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