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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Running Government as a Business

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the defense proffered by Elon Musk and his Doge team in a fascinating interview last night on Bret Baier's Fox show for their actions and why, while laudable, their efforts to apply "business" practices to government have been tried before and usually backfire. And why you shouldn't take the media assaults on Trump's deportations at face value. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Expect the worst. Some drink your pay champagne some die of thirst the way of knowing which way it's going oh for the best expect the worst welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast March 28th, 2025. I am John Podhorst. The editor of Commentary Magazine. With me as always executive editor, A. Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. And social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And social commentary columnist Christine Rosen.

1:44.7

Hi, Christine.

1:45.6

Hi, John.

1:46.8

So there are penumbras and emanations from the Republican Party of trouble.

1:53.7

The biggest, the most interesting, is the withdrawal of the nomination of Representative Elise Stefonic of New York from the

2:04.9

ambassadorship at the United Nations, we are told happening because the GOP House leadership is so

2:14.5

worried about the special election to replace Mike Waltz, now

2:21.2

a national security advisor, in Florida, that their own internal data in a poll taken by

2:30.3

Tony Fabrizio, who was Trump's pollster and one of the leading Florida pollsters,

2:36.1

shows the Democrat in the district in the race leading by three points in a seat that waltz

2:44.9

won by nine. And with the House majority at one or two, they cannot afford to lose one more seat.

2:58.0

And so, Stefanik has taken the, you know, taken the banner for her party and said she would stay in the house through the remainder of her

3:09.3

term through 2026 to preserve the house majority.

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