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The Reason Roundtable

MAGA Is Wrong About AI. Trump Is Right.

The Reason Roundtable

The Reason Roundtable

News, Politics

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Plus: a weak jobs report and Trump’s economic record, New College of Florida weighing privatization after its clash with DeSantis, and the DOJ pushes to block transgender Americans from gun ownership

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Reason Roundtable.

0:08.4

This is your weekly libertarian review of News and Culture from the editors of Reason magazine.

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If you are tired of the terrible choices offered by today's politics, you've come to the right place.

0:18.6

I'm your host, Peter Souterman, and today I am joined by my illustrious colleagues,

0:22.9

Catherine Mangyew Ward, Matt Welch, and Nick Gillespie, happy Monday, gang.

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That's donors trust.org slash reason. All righty, our AI future is here, and the magopopopulists

1:31.0

are against it and the wrong. And what's funny is President Donald Trump is right on this one.

1:36.4

So last week, we had NatCon, the annual conference for national conservatism in Washington, D.C.

1:42.8

There was a speech by Republican Senator Josh

1:45.0

Holly. It was a big anti-A speech in which he declared that artificial intelligence threatens

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