Is the US Headed for Breakup (in the Long Run)?

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02/11/2025 Power & Market Ryan McMaken

Tom Woods and I talk about the need to look beyond the Trump administration to plan for a realistic ideological and political plan moving forward. Trump’s election victory was by a very slim margin and the US is still deeply divided. In fact, the break-up of the United States is inevitable:

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