Ep. 2771 Democracy Is Low-Intensity Civil War, with Darryl Cooper
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Darryl Cooper, host of the Martyr Made podcast, discusses some of his misgivings about libertarianism, but we actually wound up spending much of our time on the rarely discussed dangers of democracy.
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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 |
| 0:08.3 | you're listening to the tom woods show |
| 0:12.0 | hey everybody tom woods here it's episode 2771 of the Tom Wood Show. We have the great |
| 0:22.6 | Daryl Cooper with us. You know him as Martyr Made on X and host of the Martyr Made podcast. |
| 0:29.1 | Also, co-hosts with Scott Horton once a week, the Provoked podcast, which I had the pleasure |
| 0:34.8 | and honor of sitting in for you on one of those episodes not too long ago. |
| 0:38.9 | And I asked him, now, by the way, a lot of you know that Darrell is rather a controversial figure. |
| 0:44.5 | And to my mind, that's unjust characterization. |
| 0:47.6 | There's no reason that Darrell should be considered controversial. |
| 0:51.0 | He just reads and he comments on what he reads. |
| 0:55.7 | And if these things that he says are not part of the official establishment version of events, well, like who cares? Like, why is that |
| 1:02.0 | forbidden? These people lie to you 24 hours a day. They're probably also lying to you about the history. |
| 1:07.3 | Their narratives are all wrong about the present. They're probably all wrong about the |
| 1:10.8 | past. But I said to Daryl, okay, so you're kind of a lightning rod. I want to know how you |
| 1:16.1 | came to be Daryl Cooper in the sense that I just, I'd like to know what some of your influences have |
| 1:21.2 | been. And then it turned out that was like giving Murray Rothbard the assignment, write a short |
| 1:27.0 | 300 word history of economic thought. |
| 1:30.4 | That turned into two giant volumes. And Darrell said, I, there's just no way I could fit that into |
| 1:35.3 | one Tom Wood's show episode. So we've narrowed it down to one particular area of Darrell's brain. |
| 1:43.0 | So why don't you describe that what we're about to venture into? |
| 1:47.0 | So when I first started making the list after you asked it, I mean, I started going through |
| 1:51.6 | the books that really like formed my way of looking at everything. You know, I started with |
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