This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Sunday, February 12th, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Don't give politicians credit for the good things that they do.

Not now and definitely not in the past.

Anthony Comegna, assistant editor for intellectual history at Libertarianism.org,

discusses just why politicians past and present ought to be regarded carefully.

What does the election of Donald Trump, and now that he has become president and begun to

spell out and implement some of the things

that he's wanted to do.

What does that mean for libertarians and the broad libertarian movement?

Well, I'd say that is an extremely broad question.

Because technically it's about as broad as the libertarian movement.

Every individual person is essentially going to be responsible for their own actions

in the upcoming eight years and maybe in the past year, how they might have affected this

outcome in the election, how how they may have

how strongly they may have supported the new president,

how weakly they may have challenged him,

what we all have to say about his actions as time

goes on here. I think you know we will have a historical record that is is without parallel in human history for the next eight years,

people's reactions to politics and vice versa.

So however libertarians respond to the new president, I think we will have probably the best

idea of how libertarianism is dealing with politics that we've ever had.

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