Welcome for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some drink champagne, some die of thirst, the way of knowing which way it's going, oh for the best, expect the worst.

Oh, for the best.

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.

Today is Thursday, March 20th, 2025.

I am John Podwhart's, the editor of Commentary Magazine,

and I am happy to announce for all of you who have been pressuring us, asking us,

begging us for new commentary merch and particularly those of you who have thrilled to one of our

now classic sound bites, our first classic sound byite, of course, being crushing morosity,

which was the subject of previous commentary. We have new limited edition commentary merch

dedicated to the soundbite. It's worse than that, voiced, as you know, by our own Abe Greenwald,

whenever we are going into a threnody about the nature of the destruction of our values,

our principles, the West, Israel, and everything that we hold dear.

And I talk about how terrible things are, Matt talks about how terrible things are.

Abe is always going to come in with that.

It's worse than that.

And then explain to us how even our most horrible projections of the future

do not capture the true horror that we are about to descend into.

So it's worse than that.

If you are watching on YouTube, and again,

if you should go subscribe to our YouTube channel, Commentary Magazine, I am now going to show you

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