Ron Paul Bows Out (2012)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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It’s May 14th. Jody Avirgan, Nicole Hemmer, and special guest Harry Enten of CNN discuss the career of Ron Paul. He ran in several Republican primaries, capturing a part of the electorate that would come to play a big role in future elections on both sides of the aisle.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.8	My name is Jody Averkin.
0:09.6	This day, May 14, 2012, Republican candidate Ron Paul announces that he will no longer
0:16.3	be campaigning for president, putting a kind of closing bookend on one of modern America's
0:20.8	more unique political careers.
0:23.2	Paul was a trained doctor and ideological libertarian.
0:26.1	He criticized elements of the government
0:27.9	that others considered essential.
0:29.6	And his surprising success early in this decade
0:32.2	kind of provided a taste of how the
0:33.7	internet and libertarian rhetoric was going to upend our politics and still is
0:38.0	today. So let's talk about it. I'm joined as always by Nicole Hammer of
0:41.5	Columbia. Hello Nicky. Hey Jody.
0:43.3	And here for his third episode in a row and his final episode with us for now,
0:49.0	maybe we'll have you back in the future is Harry Anton of CNN.
0:52.2	Hello Harry.
0:53.3	You know, when you say it like that,
0:54.9	it just sounds so sad.
0:56.4	Breaking my heart, Jody.
0:58.0	You'll be back.
0:59.4	So look, we'll talk a little bit about 2012
1:01.9	at Rump Hall there, but also I think this is our chance to do kind of Ron Paul in his place in larger American politics.
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