Ep. 1400 Libertarian Party Vice Chair Alex Merced on the LP's Past and Future

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Alex Merced, Libertarian Party vice chair, takes questions submitted by my private Supporting Listeners group, the Tom Woods Show Elite (https://www.supportinglisteners.com) on topics including the Johnson/Weld ticket, whether the LP should avoid presidential politics altogether, whether there's ever a case for not fielding an LP candidate in a particular election, and a lot more.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 1400.
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0:07.7	Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
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0:32.4	Woods during checkout. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Alex Merced is with us once again today. Alex is vice
0:39.3	chair of the Libertarian Party. He previously appeared on the show alongside Gene Epstein,
0:45.4	because he and Gene together have quite a bit of knowledge about the financial sector.
0:50.7	And that's one subject where I think a lot of people have plenty of questions because there's a lot
0:56.4	of lingo that's thrown around where it's just assumed everybody knows it and it just seems
1:01.3	confusing and opaque to a lot of people. So I brought them on and I just threw a lot of
1:06.3	listener-supplied questions at them and I think they cleared up a lot of misconceptions,
1:11.2	misunderstandings, and just help people understand the financial sector better.
1:16.3	Well, today we want to talk about the Libertarian Party itself, and once again, I'm going
1:21.5	to be drawing on some questions submitted by folks in the Supporting group, the Tom Woodshow Elite.
1:28.5	You can be part of that via supporting listeners.com.
1:32.7	Alex, welcome back.
1:33.9	Hey, Tom.
1:34.4	Thank you for having me back.
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