448: The Alluring Alt-Right (With Jeffrey Tucker)

A few days after Hillary Clinton's speech about Donald Trump and the Alt-Right, Jeffrey Tucker returned to School Sucks to discuss -the swinging pendulum of extremism-his attempts to build alliances between libertarians and right-wingers with Murray Rothbard in the early 90s-the ideological origins of modern nativism, nationalism and protectionismAlso Discussed:-Five Differences Between the Alt-Right and Libertarianism-Thomas Carlyle, the Founding Father of Fascism-a tiny doorway of legitimate concerns - social engineering and the forceful end of debate - through which a deluge of violence and insanity can poor -Trump's fascist talking points and ideations all have corollaries or mirrors on the left-a moratorium on calling people racists? A word that now means nothing -Alt-Right view: hopelessness and maybe even naiveté of libertarianism-Shame bananas-collectives on the move-everything is a zero-sum game (Trump's hostility towards free trade)-actually fighting political correctness-the left's racism problemGet the Books:Look Closer:JeffreyTucker.meFEE.orgJeffrey Tucker On School Sucks PodcastOmnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War