Ep. 1655 Why Does the Left Favor Lockdowns?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's been quite remarkable to me the extent to which the lockdowns have divided people along ideological lines. A left-wing case against lockdown seems so easy to make and so obvious, and yet a vanishingly small number of people are making it. Thaddeus Russell, an eclectic and always interesting thinker who grew up on the left, joins me to try to get to the bottom of it.

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show Episode 1655.
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0:11.5	The Tom Wood Show.
0:14.5	All right, for all you men out there listening to this program,
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0:36.8	Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:38.4	We've got Thaddeus Russell back on the show.
0:41.5	And I thought of Thad for this topic
0:44.1	because he comes from a left wing background.
0:47.9	Now I would describe him as a much more eclectic thinker,
0:51.0	always interesting, never boring.
0:53.5	And I wanted to ask him,
0:55.6	why do you think the left supports the lockdowns?
0:58.5	Because I could make a very good left wing case
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