Election 2022/2024 Episodes

In this new age of politics, it's important to have an understanding of what makes a candidate appealing to voters.

Brad Polumbo and I discuss the idea that persona plays a larger role than policy in the world of politics. We talk about how politicians can use their personas to win over voters, even when they don't have a strong political record. We also touch on how politicians can use their personas to shape policy in ways that will help them win elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Libertarian Party is known for its commitment to freedom, but sometimes that can get a little… off track.

In our society, we're taught that winning arguments is the most important thing. But what if it's not? What if the most important thing is actually helping your fellow Americans on the issues that impact them the most?

So, where does that leave Joe Biden for 2024? Heck, where does that leave the Democrats? (*Hillary Clinton has entered the chat*)

Tom Norton has a simple message: he's running for Congress because he wants to defend our values.

Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) is the most active and effective pro-liberty youth organization advancing liberty on the campus and in American electoral politics. Their four-step mission is to identify, educate, train, and mobilize youth activists to make liberty win. Today, Dan Taylor (VP of Campus) joins the program to promote their biggest event of the year, Revolution22, and how YAL is helping make liberty win by meeting people where they're at on the issues they care about. L...

It's not the libertarians who are failing, but rather, the failed policies of the common good conservative.

It means that Texans get a government that begins and ends at the borders of Texas - most importantly, it means that for the first time in Texan's lives that they control their own destiny

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Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colorado) has often been cited by libertarians as being "one of the most libertarian governors in the country". But does his governance in Colorado actually hold up to his supposed libertarian bona fides?

The blueprint is simple: Expose Mr. Biden for his litany of failures since January 2021 — drive the point home, again and again. Why? Because Mr. Biden is the worst American president in decades.

With the anti-establishment sentiment running strong throughout America, could that mean good news for Libertarians in the 2022 elections?

Facts don't care about your feelings? I mean, sure, facts don't care about your feelings, but feelings sell. And that's where we're losing the battle. It's the battle on actually appealing to people's feelings, and appealing to people's emotions

People are hurting out there. Inflation is is is really hurting people. It's universal - from truckers to soccer moms.

Speaking the truth in love means considering the other person's interests and doing it out of helping the other person. But sometimes you need to say something that they're not necessarily going to like.

The idea is that what you're going to do is get your entire paycheck. Because we fund the government differently.

"I decided to run because, in March of 2020, I got out of the Marine Corps after serving five and a half years. And I got back in mid-March, March 15, and I went to go work my first job as a normal person again. And they laid me off right after my first day."

It's one thing to say everything controversial you can to get yourself trending on CNN or Twitter, Instagram. But it's another thing for soccer moms to go vote for you.

Kelly Carden has been in Kern County for most of his life, and is so much a part of the community that he is willing to put his name on the line to fix its problems.

The Reno Reset is real! And with it, a new leadership at the helm of the third largest political party in the United States - The Libertarian Party.

Returning to the program today is Professor Sarah Burns (Associate Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology) to give her report card grade of the Biden administration's foreign policy priorities - namely Afghanistan, Ukraine/Russia, and China/Taiwan. "My difficulty with Biden is he's also an he's definitely an elder statesman. And he's also a former cold warrior. So when you're thinking about how he's going to view the world, he's going to view it as...

On today's episode, I joined Kyle Matovcik over on his program, "In Liberty and Health". We covered a TON of topics (like my weight loss, my move from Philly, and more!), but we spent a vast majority of our time focusing on fixing our old, broken libertarian messaging. Are we up for the task? Give a listen! "The voter doesn't want to hear what it means to be a libertarian. Why? Because they don't care. Why should they care? What does it mean to them - what being a libertaria...

Returning to the program today is Tim McMaster, Libertarian candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania! "It's really good to be out front and center with the local people. And as they say, 'all politics is local'. And I truly believe that, because every issue that we face on the local issue, if you just expand that out, essentially, that's on the state level on the national level as well, with some exceptions. But overall, people are concerned about the same things - how...