A Tough Week for Tony Fauci, Lessons from Special Elections, and is Joel Kotkin Right That There Will Be A Middle Class Revolt Against Progressivism?

Published: June 4, 2021, 7:31 p.m.

It’s probably not going to be a good week when 10,000 of your emails are handed over to the national press core. If you are Anthony Fauci – author of the emails in question - it has made for a very rough couple of days. Also this week, New Mexico held the first special congressional election of the Biden presidency. What if anything can be learned from it, and what does it portend for the upcoming elections for governorship in New Jersey and Virginia - as well as for the mid-terms beyond? And Joel Kotkin writes this week that a middle class rebellion is already shaping up against what many see as progressive overreach on the part of the Democrats. Carl Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief, Eric Felten, national correspondent for RealClear Investigations, and Sean Trende, senior election analyst, join Andrew Walworth on today's RealClearPolitics Takeaway podcast.