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🗓️ 22 April 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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During the presidential election season, the prolific libertarian scholar Walter Block headed up an organization called Libertarians for Trump. At the time, financial analyst and libertarian blogger Robert Wenzel debated him on the subject on this very show. Today, with the end of President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office just around the corner, we revisit the subject in a very lively discussion.
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0:39.7 | Some time ago, it was during the presidential campaign. I hosted a debate featuring the two gentlemen who are joining us today right here on the |
0:46.5 | program on the subject of Donald Trump, because Walter Block, who is one of my guests today, |
0:52.8 | had started an organization called Libertarians for Trump. |
0:56.5 | And he said that during the primary season, libertarians should support Trump as a Republican. |
1:01.7 | And then later, Walter said, you should support Gary Johnson in a state where it's clear which way the outcome is going to go, but you should vote for Trump |
1:12.6 | in a state where the outcome is unclear. |
1:15.1 | And he did this by and large because of foreign policy, but Walter can explain himself for you. |
1:20.1 | Anyway, so we talked about this because my other guest, Robert Wenzell, was not convinced of |
1:26.6 | Walter's position or his reasoning. So we had a, we hashed it out here on the show. |
1:32.1 | Well, now we are nearing the conclusion of the first hundred days of the Trump administration. |
1:37.3 | So I thought it was an opportune moment to bring these two gentlemen back and hash it out and see if anything's changed in light of what has |
1:44.9 | actually happened under a president Donald Trump. So let me tell you something about these two guys. |
1:50.1 | Walter Block, many listeners of the show already know because he's a very, very prolific |
1:55.2 | scholar in the libertarian tradition. He's written many books, most notoriously defending the undefendable, |
2:02.2 | and he's the author of over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly articles, which has got to be some kind of a |
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