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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2,596 of the Tom Woods show. We have our old friend Dan McCarthy back with us. Dan, as many of you are beginning to memorize, is the editor of Modern Age, which you can find at Modern Agejournal.com. He's also vice president for the collegiate network at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

I read his column on a regular basis.

You can find it in numerous places, including the New York Post.

And I think he's been one of the most insightful people regarding, among many other things, the Trump phenomenon.

And here we are in the middle of the week of the inauguration so it seemed appropriate to

bring dan back to talk about these very topics so dan welcome back thanks tom delighted to join you

well you have a column in the telegraph that doggunard i wish i could have read it for this

but that sure seemed the way you sold it in the email sure seemed like an interesting one about what

Trump is potentially poised to do. And in the headline anyway, you compared him to Reagan in terms of

how revolutionary his impact could be. But I wonder if we might actually start there, because

what would you say to somebody who says it's fun for boomer conservatives

to look back, not that you're a boomer damn, but to look back at Reagan and say, oh, those are the

days we had a great charming president and he was revolutionary. But the fact is the trends that we

deplore today continued under Reagan. He wasn't able to reverse them to the

extent that we might have wanted. So is this going to be another case of somebody comes in

boasting about his revolutionary potential and then winds up a disappointment?

Well, if you're looking for a president to deliver perfection, then you're going to be

disappointed not only in Donald Trump, not only in Ronald Reagan, but in anyone else who could possibly get elected.

I think the more important question is, can a president achieve something in the most important

areas of his presidency?

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