Murray Rothbard Anticipated the Election of Donald Trump
April 24, 2019
In a 1994 (!) article in the Rothbard-Rockwell Report, the precursor to LewRockwell.com. Murray was thrilled by the emergence of a “right-wing populist movement” motivated by the utter loathing of then-President Clinton and his wife and their entire sleazy, criminal cabal by millions of working-class Americans. It had nothing to do with the “blow dried D.C. think tankers” who dream of “sipping martinis with Bob Dole,” wrote Murray.
These people thought of the Clintons as power-hungry sleazes “because they are power-hungry sleazes.”
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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