Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, the weekly and occasionally chaotic,

Libertarian Podcast from the magazine of free minds and free markets.

I am a great sounding Matt Welch joined per holiday tradition by Nick Gillespie, Peter

Souderman, and Catherine Mankew Ward. Good morning Elves.

Howdy.

Happy Christmas, Matt Welch.

Happy Monday.

That's right.

So my big idea is I thought we might discuss a presidential candidate whose plans for the White House

don't always receive a lot of detailed examination despite the fact that he's

up 50 percentage points nationally in his party's primary and at least double over the number

two candidate in each of the early primary in caucus states in addition to polling ahead of the presidential

incumbent in the vast majority of national

polls of the last couple of months as well as in the betting markets I am talking

of course about Donald J. Trump the 45th President and would be 47th.

The mere subject of Donald Trump is a hyperbole factory, both pro and con,

trumps John the Baptist figure Steve Bannon

over this past weekend declared that,

quote, his fate and his destiny

is the fate and destiny of this republic, which sounds possibly a

tad overstated. Meanwhile the Atlantic magazine in a special issue out on news

stands now if there are indeed new stands in this country that's

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