The Tom Woods Show, episode 1280.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here.

I thought today we would talk a bit about the Trump phenomenon

and where it stands today, as well as the Democrats, in the wake of the midterm elections.

And joining us today is Dan McCarthy, who has a column in the New York Times out just the other

day on this very question. Dan is editor at large of the American

Conservative magazine, and he is currently editor of Modern Age, a conservative journal dating back to

the 1950s. Check it out at Modern Agejournal.com. Dan, welcome back. Thanks, Tom. Delighted to be here.

Nice column in the New York Times.

I don't know how you keep getting away with it, but you have that sophisticated air about

you, that allows you to get away with saying outrageous things. That's my theory anyway.

So you're trying to assess the significance of the midterms here, and I realize that I'm kind

of a day late on this, but just the

way in the schedule that I do for recording the podcast, there was no way for me to get anything out

any sooner. And then I saw your column, and I thought, all right, here we go. I'm going to rope McCarthy

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