On today's Daily Standard podcast, deputy online editor Jim Swift and reporter Andrew Egger marvel over our national inability to healthily process controversial events from presidential bomb scares to migrant caravans, and attempt to answer the age-old question: Is Ted Cruz seriously over the 2016 Republican primary?

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