Ep. 620 Trump, Buchanan, and the Death of the Political Consultant
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Another interesting side effect of the Trump insurgency is that salaries of supposedly indispensable political consultants are coming way down. Trump is crushing the field while spending a pittance on such people, and ignoring all standard political advice.
Another person to do this was Pat Buchanan, to whom Trump is often compared. My guest today, Roger McCaffrey, who worked for Pat, describes how Pat did this. It's a freewheeling, informative, and at times hilarious discussion of then and now.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 620. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:45.3 | Check it out, tomwoods.com slash Sarah. |
| 0:48.6 | Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. Let me start off actually by telling you what the next couple of |
| 0:53.3 | episodes are going to be, because I had said that we'd talk to Karen Katowski this week, and I've actually moved her to Monday to episode 622. |
| 1:02.4 | Tomorrow we're going to talk about – well, let's just put it this way. |
| 1:06.8 | It turns out that the IRS is about to become maybe 15 to 20 percent more evil than it is now |
| 1:13.6 | if a new law actually takes effect, a new regulation. I don't exactly what the right word is, |
| 1:21.3 | but it's something that's, it's a rule that's been held at bay for about a year, but it's set |
| 1:27.2 | to take effect in September 2016, and it's terrible, and we need to be aware of it to see if maybe there's anything we can do to stop it. |
| 1:34.9 | So more detail on that in tomorrow's episode. |
| 1:37.8 | But today, we're talking to Roger McCaffrey again. |
| 1:40.8 | I talked to him as part of – in my bonus episode, a number of episodes ago. I don't |
| 1:46.7 | remember, was it 16, actually, about the Catholic Church. We're going to talk about politics |
| 1:51.9 | today. And in particular, we want to say a little something about insurgent campaigns |
| 1:57.0 | and political consultants. Political consultants in presidential campaigns earn a fortune. A fortune. If you had any idea what these people are being paid, you would never, ever again donate to any political candidate if, in fact, that is something you're currently doing. And by and large, what the success of some of these insurgent campaigns has been showing |
| 2:21.7 | is that these people are totally overpaid, that you can do the exact opposite of what these people say, |
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