Ep. 2718 Robert Barnes on the Mistakes of the Israel Lobby, and Whether MAGA Can Be Put Back Together
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Constitutional lawyer Robert Barnes discusses the attacks on Massie and MTG, prospects for the midterms, the mistakes of the Israel Lobby, and plenty more.
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know. |
| 0:08.9 | You're listening to The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:18.6 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2718 of the Tom Wood Show with the great Robert Barnes here with us. |
| 0:25.4 | I don't know what I would do without the Robert Barnes Twitter slash X feed. I don't always agree with Robert, |
| 0:30.8 | but it seems like he confirms me in my instincts, a solid 90 to 95% of the time. He's a constitutional lawyer, a political gambler, he says. |
| 0:39.8 | He has been involved in a great many high profile cases. And when I want to get a really good |
| 0:45.1 | solid legal angle on something, I want to talk to Robert. But these days, when I just want |
| 0:49.9 | to talk about what's going on in the world and with American politics and with Donald Trump, |
| 0:54.2 | I think we haven't actually talked since you came on to talk about some of the lawfare against Trump. |
| 0:59.8 | And you're really good. You knew all the details about that. But now so much has happened over that past year. |
| 1:05.6 | I get this, but not just the sense, but I can tell from your feed that you're frustrated after this first year |
| 1:12.0 | with Donald Trump. And what do you think's gone wrong? Is it the messaging? Is it the agenda? |
| 1:16.6 | Is it both? What's the problem? I mean, I think it's a combination of both. I mean, you had a unique |
| 1:20.8 | coalition formed in 2024, even different than 2016. So you had what I call sort of OG MAGA. These are working class |
| 1:29.8 | industrial Midwestern voters, older voters, located in disproportionately rural or small towns |
| 1:35.8 | or formerly industrialized areas. And those people joined the Trump coalition in 2016 to break |
| 1:42.3 | through the so-called Democratic Blue Wall. Then in 2024, |
| 1:46.0 | you had added on to that. Young voters, disproportionately younger African-American, Latino, |
| 1:52.3 | Asian-American working class voters, Gen Xers, younger Gen Xers, millennials, zoomers, a good number of |
| 1:58.9 | libertarians formally and informally. as part of this sort of new |
| 2:03.3 | potential realigning coalition. And it was unclear to me even then whether Trump himself |
| 2:10.1 | appreciated this new coalition. And Trump's always been a brilliant marketer, but more a brilliant |
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