The Tom Woods Show, episode 877.

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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

Well, with the failure of the American Health Care Act, there's a lot of speculation and commentary about the future of Donald Trump's

agenda. There's a lot of discussion about Paul Ryan, the bill itself, the Freedom Caucus,

the Republicans, that is to say, who stood up and said, we're not going to support

this crummy bill because it's not at all free market. It's not the kind of replacement for

Obamacare that we want. There's just a lot of discussion about what this all means. And I just

had the opportunity to read an article by Dan McCarthy, who's been on the show before, for the national interest that I think shed some helpful light on all this.

So I decided to invite Dan back onto the show. Dan is a regular contributor to the national interest.

I'll be linking to his article at tomwoods.com slash 877.

And he is editor at large of the American Conservative magazine. Dan,

welcome back to the show. Tom, thanks for having me on. Thank heavens for Facebook, said no one ever.

But honestly, though, it's because of Facebook that I found out about your article in the national interest that I liked a lot.

I wanted to get this episode out as quickly as possible while this is still live because it sounds to me as if Trump is saying, well, you had your chance to repeal Obamacare and you had your chance with this Paul Ryan Bill.

And it didn't pass. So I'm moving on to other things, and you're stuck with Obamacare.

And there's a bit, there's something that's quite, I don't know, it's almost like a tantrum going on here.

Well, if I don't get my bill, then Obamacare stay in and it's what you rotten people deserve.

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