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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 636 Libertarians for Trump? A Debate

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When libertarian scholar Walter Block announced the creation of Libertarians for Trump, he generated a good deal of controversy. Now he explains his support for Donald Trump's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination -- in the context of a debate with Robert Wenzel. Enjoy!

Show notes for Ep. 636

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 636.

0:03.8

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.5

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.7

Friends, if you don't have the time of your life aboard the Contra Cruise in October 2016,

0:20.6

then what can I say? I owe you a Coke.

0:22.6

Bob Murphy and I are hosting a cruise that's going to be full of fun and games and music and

0:27.9

fellowship and making new friends. A ton of fun, ContraCruise.com.

0:35.5

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. What an episode we have today. Oh, come on. You saw the title of

0:41.3

the episode. You know what's coming here. We're talking about Donald Trump, and we're having a

0:46.2

little debate here. Between two people I admire very much, Walter Block and Robert Wenzell.

0:54.1

Now, after the debate, I've got a few things I want to tell you before we go off for the weekend. So do not turn off the episode after the debate. I have a few fun things, including the episodes that we're going to be having next week. The topics we're covering are just tremendous, and I can't wait to tell you about them, so don't go

1:12.2

away. And I have a few other things to tell you, too. I mean, I got some homework assignments for

1:16.0

you over the weekend, so stick around after the debate. Let me introduce these two gentlemen now.

1:22.3

Walter Block holds the Harold E. Worth eminent scholar chair in economics at Loyola University, New Orleans.

1:29.3

He is the author of nearly 500 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as countless other articles,

1:37.0

and many books, most famously defending the undefendable. You can find out more about Walter

1:41.9

and view his unbelievable CV at walterblock.com.

1:47.9

Walter will be arguing in the affirmative, the statement being resolved, libertarians should

1:53.5

support Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.

1:58.7

Arguing in the negative is Robert Wenzell. Bob Wenzell is editor and publisher

2:03.5

of two websites I Could Not Live Without, Economic Policy Journal.com and Targetliberty.com. He has 30

2:13.6

years experience as an analyst on Wall Street. All right, so let's turn to these gentlemen now.

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