Ep. 474 The Trump Phenomenon: Lew Rockwell and Tom Discuss
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
No doubt Donald Trump would be a bad president, as they all are -- though his observation that the Iraq war was a disaster, and that while Saddam kept terrorists under control, Iraq is now a haven for terrorism, is better than we hear from anyone else -- but surely there is more to say about the Trump phenomenon. Lew Rockwell joins Tom for a freewheeling discussion!
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 474. |
| 0:03.8 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.3 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:28.7 | $10 gift card. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Join once again by Lou Rockwell. We're going to talk |
| 0:35.4 | today about the Donald Trump phenomenon, which I did not see coming at all. |
| 0:41.1 | Yes, I knew he was likely to run, but I had no idea what the effect of it would be. |
| 0:47.1 | So it's very interesting. It's very interesting phenomenon. We're not endorsing Donald Trump, obviously. |
| 0:52.4 | We're just very, very interested in this phenomenon that the establishment trots out Jeb Bush, |
| 0:58.6 | and meanwhile, Jeb Bush has been left completely in the dust. |
| 1:01.7 | That's an interesting phenomenon for somebody who is interested in following this stuff, as Lou and I are. |
| 1:08.2 | Of course, you all know who Lou Rockwell is. |
| 1:10.2 | He is the publisher of |
| 1:11.9 | Lou Rockwell.com, which I look at every day. He is the founder and chairman of the Mises |
| 1:18.4 | Institute, which did so much for my own personal intellectual development. I cannot |
| 1:23.6 | recommend it to you highly enough, mezes.org, M-I-S-E-S-D-org. And he is the former chief of |
| 1:30.3 | staff to Ron Paul. Lou, welcome back to the show. Tom, great to be with you and especially |
| 1:35.9 | on this topic. Normally, I have at least some notes. I scribble out. I read some articles. I |
| 1:42.3 | prepare myself. I get some questions formulated. And then when the thing gets going, it tends to be spontaneous, but at least I've got some backup. I got no backup here at all. I just think, I'm talking to Lou Rockwell about Donald Trump. I think that's going to carry us through. Let's lead with this item that is from several days ago now about two different events that were |
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