Shortly after Trump was elected in 2016, a piece actually came out in 2017 by Rick Perlstein and the

New York Times magazine and it was basically kind of Rick saying that he had to

revise his picture of the conservative movement and cranks and

oddballs and fringe figures that he had thought had been marginalized and pushed out of

the conservative movement were more important than he had suspected.

And also around this time, the alt-right,

as it was known that was really in the news a lot

because they were very excited by Trump's victory, very excited by Trump's campaign,

and I kept on coming across the name Murray Rothbard when reading the profiles and interviews with these guys.

Now a lot of these guys were neo-Nazis, but they all, almost to a man, talked about Murray

Rothbard as the person who kind of started them on their road of political, to the kind of political

consciousness that they had then.

So I was looking around at what Rothbard wrote and I found a piece from 1992 called

Right-wing populism, a strategy for the paleo movement, and it was eerie what it said and how much it

seemed to anticipate Trump and what had happened in the in the Republican

Party. Hello and welcome to Wises happening with me your host Chris Hayes. We live in an era of the unpressited. You hear that a lot. I get to say it a lot on the television show all in which I host on the MSNBC and it's true there's lots of stuff happening that hasn't happened before at least since the firing of the cannons of Fort Sumter there had been no violent attempt on the interruption of the transfer of power

in the United States, not since Lincoln's election.

So that really was pretty unprecedented, certainly in our lifetimes.

There's never been a president impeached twice that was unprecedented.

There's never been a nominee for the presidency running who has 34 felony convictions.

That's completely new in American history.

It's been since the 19th century that we had someone running

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