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Ronald Reagan used to joke that for Republicans, every day is the 4th of July, while for Democrats every day is April 15. Today we need to update that contrast by noting that the favorite new holiday for Democrats is January 6—"Insurrection Day."
We'll get to Joe Biden in due course, but the real insurrection this week took place at Harvard, where, as John Yoo predicted last week (we have receipts!) Claudine Gay was ousted in a right-wing putsch, a vertiable academic insurrection against all that is true and good (if you believe the left and Gay's causal explanation). A harbinger of things to come? Our panel weighs the chances, but the key clue to real change will be whether Harvard starts by reforming its governing board, currently dominated by political hacks. And who will be the next president of Harvard? We offer some guesses. . .
Then we turn to Biden's demagogic campaign speech warning about the "end of democracy," and are undecided whether it deserves a sneer or a snort, but above all wondering if will backfire on Biden. Clearly Democrats hope to bait Trump into making crazy statements, but Trump's way-outside-the-box comments are fairly well discounted by now. Is this the best they've got? Well, at least they are securing their base of NPR listeners.
We also take up the late-breaking news that the Supreme Court will take up on an expedited schedule the Colorado ruling throwing Trump off the ballot, with a few early thoughts, though we'll be all over this story in depth right after the oral argument next month.
And finally, a few quick closing thoughts on the latest Jeffrey Epstein non-revelations.
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I hope that one of the University presidencies that Lucrecia turned down wasn't Nebraska's. The departing president and new Governor are moving in the right direction.
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I am wondering when any of the "conservative" commentators are going to address the Heartland/Rasmussen poll about the 1 in 5 mail in voting indiscretions. There seems to be an almost allergic response to not acknowledge the poll even exits. I listen to several conservative pods including several on the Ricochet network. Interested in what Lucretia and John's read on this is.