Ep. 789 Whether the Left Can Be Reached, and How Libertarians Should Proceed
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Jason Stapleton and I review a recent article of mine on how easy -- or difficult -- it will be to use the election of Donald Trump as an opportunity to persuade leftists that they should favor smaller government.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 789. |
| 0:03.5 | 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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| 0:47.4 | Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. For today's episode, I am sharing with you, an appearance I had on |
| 0:53.1 | the Jason Stapleton program, which I have talked to you |
| 0:55.9 | about in the past. Jason's been a guest on this show. Jason had me on to elaborate on a blog post |
| 1:03.4 | and an email that I sent out about a week and a half ago now on trying to reason with the left, |
| 1:10.6 | and I was arguing that it's pointless most of the time. |
| 1:14.1 | Now, I'm somebody who has made converts from the left. I wrote a book with a guy on the left. |
| 1:19.7 | My book on war with Murray Palmer. So it's not like I'm saying there's absolutely no hope whatsoever. |
| 1:25.3 | But I'm talking about in general, there's a reason that we have, |
| 1:29.5 | I personally think we have more trouble making inroads with the left. There's a reason that |
| 1:34.5 | Fox News will at least invite some of our people on, much as they are terrible, despicable |
| 1:39.2 | people, the Fox News folks, a lot of them, they'll have some of our people on. MSNBC doesn't have |
| 1:45.0 | some of our people on, even if we are good on war and civil liberties. When was the last time they |
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