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This is Robbie Martin.

Well, we just put out a podcast with Abby and I. And since we recorded that podcast, a lot of crazy shit has gone down.

And it all pretty much revolves around Donald Trump.

Which I guess shouldn't really be a surprise, but there are just so many panicked reactions coming in from all sides right now. And I think what's happening is exciting and i guess i'm not afraid uh or like scared about what's

happening um i think that the outcome of it is probably going to be good in the long term there

are definitely some negatives about what's happening.

But I think primarily, I mean, what I see happening that is the most satisfying is that we're

watching, witnessing the implosion of the Republican Party.

It started after Bush. It continued with the Tea Party. Ran Paul and Ted Cruz and some other

conservatives helped sort of widen that divide.

And then as we got closer to the election, it just seemed like most of them, including Rand Paul, had sort of come back over to sort of more of the neocon side, which was the side that they all tried to act like they weren't part of back in 2008.

And that's when they tried to start their pivot to taxes and sort of libertarian issues

that were libertarian issues that were seized by the power establishment and narrowed in on.

Like not paying taxes, the free market, you know, and that's how we saw the

rise of like how the Fox Business Channel now is basically like an establishment, libertarian,

conservative financial network. That's not to say that they don't also talk about some other libertarian issues.

You'll see on the Judge Napolitano show, Lou Dobbs, Kennedy Nation,

you'll see them talking about foreign policy libertarian issues sometimes.

And, you know, at heart, these people probably think they're libertarians.

But I think, you you know if you sort of read libertarianism before this whole wave of Tea Party stuff happened or if you

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