Hey, everyone. Welcome to the What Is Money Show. I'm sitting down today with Mr. Jeffrey A. Tucker, founder of Brownstone.

Jeffrey, welcome to the show.

Well, it's such a pleasure to be here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Apparently, your fame is notorious and rising.

So I'm honored to be invited on your podcast.

Well, I'm honored to have you here.

I really appreciate you agreeing to do this

I originally discovered your work through Twitter you had tweeted out that you thought

this was the most important piece you had written in 30 years of writing I think was the

tweet well the purge has begun is that the purge and it is titled the purges has begun. Is that the purge? And it is titled, The Purges Have Begun.

Yeah.

And I, as we were just discussing offline, we're in very pivotal times, uncertain times.

And I think this article did a great job of cutting through the noise and hopefully framing where we are

in a relevant historical context. So if I may, I'd like to open by reading an excerpt from your piece.

Oh, it's fine, yeah. You write, quote, once the consciousness seeped in and the politicians panicked,

we moved quickly from travel restrictions to lockdowns, to mask mandates,

to domestic capacity restrictions, to vaccine mandates.

Somewhere along the way, we learned to classify people by profession,

stigmatize the sick,

then finally to demonize the noncompliant.

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