What Will the GOP Do if It Wins?

This week on The Motive Roundtable, Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and Fiona Harrigan, filling in for Katherine Mangu-Ward, talk about the heated rhetoric surrounding the upcoming midterm elections, theorize what a GOP-controlled Home would entail, and reply a listener’s query about how libertarians can keep away from being labeled “jihadists.”

0:48: Discourse over the midterms

19:54: The GOP’s anti-immigration advertisements

32:15: Weekly Listener Query:

“Please see the next remark from British Conservative Celebration MP Robert Halfon: ‘The federal government has seemed like libertarian jihadists and handled the entire nation as sort of laboratory mice on which to hold out extremely, extremely free-market experiments,’ he instructed Sky Information. How can we forestall libertarians from being slandered as such? If, because the U.Ok. markets advised, freer financial coverage requires short-term struggling to realize longer-term positive factors, do Individuals have the abdomen required to strategy such insurance policies?”

48:21: What have we been consuming?

Talked about on this podcast:

“Republican Home Majority Will Attempt to Soften Down International Financial system,” by Jonathan Chait

“Republicans Plan Debt Disaster to Power Cuts to Medicare and Social Safety,” by Jonathan Chait

“McCarthy Suggests a G.O.P.-Led Home Would Query Help to Ukraine,” by Catie Edmondson

“Rishi Sunak to develop into Britain’s subsequent prime minister,” by Jill Lawless

“‘For those who give attention to the deficit, then tax will increase are on the desk.'” by Peter Suderman

“Why is everybody choosing on the Bush ‘tax cuts’ moderately than the Bush ‘spending will increase’?” by Nick Gillespie

“The 19 P.c Resolution,” by Nick Gillespie and Veronique De Rugy

“Is Libertarianism a ‘Stealth Plan’ To Destroy America?” by Nick Gillespie

“Grover Norquist: The GOP Tax Invoice Is Good Sufficient For Now (He is Planning to ‘Whine Later’)” by Nick Gillespie

“The Grover Norquist of Spending Cuts: Jonathan Bydlak and the Coalition to Cut back Spending,” by Nick Gillespie

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Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve