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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday April 29th

2022 I am John Pott or it's the editor of commentary magazine with as always executive editor a greenwald hi a

Hi John senior writer Christine Rose and high Christine hi John and associate editor Noah Rothman high Noah hi John well the

Revelations keep coming from the forthcoming book by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin this will not pass all we've

Here heard about all week is about the Republicans trying to manage their feelings about Trump and the wake of January 6th but

Our friends at the dispatch got a copy of the book and found an absolutely jaw dropping

Detailed not about Republicans, but about Democrats

According to the book Democrats serious internal divisions have stalled President Joe Biden's domestic agenda

With centrist and progressive seeking to advance radically different priorities

Martin Burns right to the centrist Trump percent represented a decisive turn into politics to form of warfare

With every issue presidential action and every congressional vote treaty this combat

They believe that dealmaking and bipartisan cooperation would restore a mood of normalcy in the capital and eventually in the national large

But from the perspective of the congressional progressive caucus they write

That was a suckers view because even if voters told posters they care about bipartisanship

Liberals believe in American scared far more about tangible improvements to their lives

To the left purging Trump and the political system and showing the electorate including lower income whites who supported the foreign president that government could transform their lives for the better

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So here that's that's nothing new right here's the new detail

On September 22nd 2021 as the Biden administration was desperately trying

To get some kind of consensus deal in the democratic senatorial caucus on the bill back better bill the reconciliation package right

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