Ep. 587 The Screwed Up GOP
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
What's wrong with the GOP? My guest and I agree there's a lot wrong, but we're not always agreed as to what that is. We have a freewheeling discussion of populism, noninterventionism, localism, Trump, Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and more. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 587. |
| 0:03.7 | 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. |
| 0:14.7 | Folks, if you are looking for more libertarian podcasts, then I recommend the Jason Stapleton program hosted by my friend Jason Stapleton. |
| 0:24.0 | Monday through Friday, he gives you an hour's worth of libertarian analysis of the news of the day. |
| 0:29.9 | Check it out at jasonstapleton.com. |
| 0:32.5 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Talking to Matt Lewis today about the Republican Party. |
| 0:36.8 | Now, Matt and I are not |
| 0:38.1 | exactly from the same point of view, but that makes things fun. He's a good guy and a friend, |
| 0:44.9 | and he's got a brand new book, and it's called Too Dumb to Fail, how the GOP betrayed the |
| 0:50.5 | Reagan Revolution to win elections, and how it can reclaim its conservative roots. |
| 0:56.4 | Matt Lewis is a writer, a CNN political commentator, and a blogger with the Daily Caller. |
| 1:01.7 | He's also a contributing editor for The Week. |
| 1:04.8 | He currently hosts his own podcast, Matt Lewis and The News. |
| 1:08.6 | He was named one of the 50 best conservative columnists by right-wing news in 2013, 14, and 15. |
| 1:16.6 | Matt, welcome to the show. Hey, Tom. Great to be here. I'm a huge fan of the podcast and delighted to be on the show today. |
| 1:24.5 | Well, I couldn't be happier as well. We were just saying before we started |
| 1:28.2 | that I've been on your show and I've used that appearance as an episode of this show. So I'll link that. |
| 1:33.9 | If people just can't get enough of the Woods-Lewis rapport here, then we will give them more of what |
| 1:39.9 | they want at Tom Woods.com slash 587, where I'll link to chat that I used as an episode of my own show. |
| 1:46.6 | No, I just want to say not to suck up, but I'm a huge fan of the show. |
| 1:52.7 | Love, love the history. |
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