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Ep. 954 Tom DiLorenzo Smashes Nancy MacLean's Book on the "Radical Right" -- a Term That Includes You and Me

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Nancy MacLean generated much discussion and controversy when she released her book Democracy in Chains, which purports to explain how the "radical Right" -- in which she includes the most implausible figures -- conspired to take over America.
 
The book is the standard leftist hysteria about outcomes that will obviously never come to pass, plus a healthy serving of innuendo and downright manufactured claims. Tom DiLorenzo and I have fun with it.
 

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The Tom Woods Show, episode 954.

0:03.6

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0:37.4

Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. There's been some controversy about a recent book by a woman

0:42.6

named Nancy McLean. It's called Democracy in Chains, the Deep History of the Radical

0:49.2

Rights Stealth Plan for America. And it's one of these books that makes no distinctions of any kind.

0:56.6

As far as she's concerned, Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, Donald Trump, Murray Rothbard, and

1:03.8

Milton Friedman are more or less all the same person. So it's about what you expect from the

1:08.5

left when they examine us. But we're pretty good at making distinctions on their side.

1:14.1

I pretty much know who the different groups are.

1:16.7

But, man, we are all the same somehow.

1:20.0

Well, anyway, the book has been savaged so far, at least on our side, because we've dug out facts that obviously contradict what's

1:29.4

being said here. In fact, I think probably the best job I've seen done on this so far is by

1:35.7

Tom D. Lorenzo, who has an article, a review of it coming out in the quarterly Journal of

1:40.5

Austrian Economics, the print edition of which is not yet available, but the online

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