11/12/21 Hunter DeRensis on America’s History of Hating War Profiteers

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 14 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Scott is joined by Hunter DeRensis to discuss a recent longform article he wrote for The American Conservative. The article was the culmination of months of research DeRensis did on the history of the American public’s perception of weapons manufacturers. DeRensis identifies the period between the World Wars as being the age with the most resistance to the war profiteers. Interestingly, that resistance was largely led by middle-class conservatives. Scott and DeRensis point to Joe Kent, who’s running for Congress in Washington State, as an example of the return of this right-wing resistance to the military-industrial complex. Discussed on the show: “Merchants Of Death” (The American Conservative) Hunter DeRensis is communications director for BringOurTroopsHome.US and a regular contributor to The American Conservative. Find him on his website or on Twitter @HunterDeRensis. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton Show.
0:12.6	I'm the Director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:15.0	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.8	Author of the book, Pools Arran,
0:19.8	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.8	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:25.1	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
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0:40.6	at YouTube.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hunter de Rentsis, he's the editor at the Libertarian Institute.
0:54.1	And he's a really great writer, and here he's got this masterpiece, man,
0:57.9	it's going to take you a little while to get through it,
0:59.5	but it's totally worth it.
1:01.0	It's at the American Conservative magazine. Oh oh and I forgot to mention he is
1:04.9	communications director for bring our troops home US as well damn McKnight and the great
1:09.6	guys over there so here he is a contributor, regular contributor over at TAC and this one is called
1:17.4	Merchants of Death from the Nine Committee to Joe Kent. The fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.
1:27.0	Welcome back to the show. How you doing, Hunter?
1:30.0	I'm doing great, Scott. happy to be back.
1:33.0	Good to talk to you.
1:35.0	So, man, what a great piece. I guess I first want to ask you what got you interested in this particular topic or you know wanting to write a
1:44.3	history of this subject the way that you've done here
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