Ep. 1976 Is AOC the Best Libertarian in Congress? That's What Left-Leaning Libertarians Say

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Tom Woods

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Left-leaning libertarians have actually been claiming, if you can believe this, that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose worldview is altogether confused and state-centered, is actually the best libertarian in Congress. She is certainly better, they say, than Thomas Massie. Since this is insane, I decided to smash it. Sponsor: Getting clobbered by your competitors? Invisible in the search engines? Your leads at a trickle -- or nonexistent? Persist SEO can turn that all around for your business. Check them out at

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, episode 1976.
0:03.6	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.3	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
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0:38.9	Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:41.3	Well today I want to visit a topic that you might think I don't need to cover, but I'm
0:46.9	covering it not so much to refute an argument, an argument that seems hardly to need reputation
0:53.2	as to just let you know about the existence of a part of the libertarian world that you
0:59.3	may not be aware of.
1:00.6	And I'm sure you're much happier not being aware of it.
1:03.8	As I finished up yesterday's episode, I mentioned that the head of the, I guess the social
1:09.2	media person for the libertarian party of Texas tweeted that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
1:15.3	is more libertarian than Thomas Massey.
1:18.2	Now I don't know where you could possibly get that, except possibly on immigration
1:23.2	but even there, even if you implemented everything Massey recommends, you'd still, the United
1:28.2	States would still have one of the most liberal immigration policies in the whole world.
1:33.1	And of course, immigration is a contested issue among libertarians.
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