#131 - Angela McArdle - The Fight for Freedom in a Post-Rational World

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Angela McArdle is the former Chair of the US Libertarian Party and a leading voice in the global liberty movement.

In this conversation, we explore the ideological war raging beneath the surface: between those who want freedom and those who want control.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:03:20 – UK's Tax Exodus & Class Divide
00:08:00 – Identity Politics to Class Warfare
00:10:20 – Third-Party Strategy & Trump Deal
00:15:40 – Mises Caucus & RFK
00:22:00 – Free Ross Ulbricht
00:27:30 – Charlie Kirk's Death
00:32:00 – US Cities in Decline
00:38:30 – NHS vs Private Care Models
00:45:00 – Bitcoin, Financial Freedom & State Control
00:49:40 – Operation Choke Point 2.0
00:54:00 – Tornado Cash & Criminalising Code
01:00:00 – Free Speech & Privacy
01:04:30 – Ian Freeman's Case
01:10:00 – COVID as Control, Not Health
01:14:00 – Civil Liberties Are Dying
01:18:00 – The Cold War: Freedom vs Free Stuff
01:24:00 – Guns, Rights & Self Defence
01:30:00 – Liberty's, Future & the 2028 Plan

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0:00.0	We live in two different realities, and I don't fully understand how they got to where they're at,
0:06.6	but it's not rational. They don't want to be rational. I feel like we're approaching the end of,
0:13.9	of like a rational era. I feel like we're having a hard swing against enlightenment. Like we're
0:20.8	entering this weird romantic
0:22.2	period where people are, some people on the right are just going full Nazi, which is not good.
0:29.2	Yes. And people on the left are just going full communist. But with identity politics. And, you know,
0:35.5	so the gender, gender identity politics, maybe that's failed. So now it's going to be class warfare, because that's more, you know, that's And, you know, so the gender, gender identity politics, maybe that's failed.
0:38.3	So now it's going to be class warfare because that's more, you know, that's the tried and true
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1:30.8	We've got Conner laughing over there. What's this?
1:34.0	Oh, an Angela tweet. My cab driver in London brag to me about how much they pay in taxes.
1:39.1	It was brutal.
1:40.1	What? He bragged about it?
1:43.1	Oh, we pay a lot in taxes over here.
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