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Libertarians, Class, and the Left

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4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Libertarians often find it difficult to talk about class, but understanding how the state creates permanent classes may be essential to engaging with other ideological groups. Anthony Comegna comments.

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0:00.0

This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, November 25th, 2016.

0:06.7

I'm Caleb Brown.

0:07.7

For supporters of Liberty who have found little worth embracing in this election season,

0:11.6

here's some advice. Engage with the left and do so with an

0:15.3

eye toward the classes that the state, by its very nature, creates.

0:19.6

That from Anthony Comegna, assistant editor for Intellectual History

0:23.2

at the Cato Institute's Libertarianism.org project.

0:26.7

If you had to offer some big lessons

0:28.8

for people who are sympathetic or libertarians themselves

0:36.2

about what this election actually means for them.

0:40.0

What would it be?

0:41.1

Well, here's my big fear with Donald Trump.

0:44.0

I don't expect that he'll be the wild-eyed far-right radical that so many people fear.

0:52.0

I think that was sufficient rhetoric to get him through

0:55.4

a vicious primary campaign, probably even to sail him into victory in a highly

1:01.6

unusual election year, but I don't think it'll be what he acts upon in

1:06.8

office.

1:07.8

I think there are too many countervailing factors that limit the ability of a president to act independently of the rest of our system,

1:16.0

for that to seriously happen.

1:18.0

I think there are too many different people in competing interests at play for Trump to get through and act upon the worst

1:26.5

elements of his policy proposals.

1:31.1

And you know in 2008 when President-elect Obama was about to enter office, so many of us,

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