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David Smith (born April 20, 1983) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, and libertarian political commentator.[1][2][3] He has frequently appeared on Fox News Channel's Kennedy[4][5] and The Greg Gutfeld Show.[6][7][8] Additionally he was a recurring panelist on CNN's S.E. Cupp: Unfiltered.[9]

Smith is a member of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party.[10] As of 2022, Smith was reportedly running the party's social media.[11]

Career

In 2013, Smith was featured as one of the New Faces at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He was a featured performer on the New York Comedy Festival's "New York's Funniest" showcase in 2014 and 2015.[12]

He hosts the Part of the Problem podcast and cohosts the comedy podcast Legion of Skanks.[1][6][13][14] He has made appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience and Timcast.[15][16][17][18][1]

He was the MC for FreedomFest, a libertarian festival, in 2021,[19] and a featured speaker there in 2022.[11] Smith was running the Libertarian Party's social media as of 2022, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[11]

Political views

Smith is a member of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party.[10][20][21][22][23] Smith said in a 2017 Reason interview that he "became a libertarian through the Ron Paul movement".[24] He has opposed what he sees as big tech hegemony, describing it as "the biggest threat to liberty" aside from the "tyranny of COVID-19".[25] He said to Reason in 2021 that he did not plan to vaccinate himself or his child against COVID-19.[25][15] Reason described him as "a vocal opponent of wokeness and political correctness".[25] An admirer of the anarcho-capitalist economist Murray Rothbard, he told Reason that like Rothbard he would abolish government if he could.[26]

Smith has been noted for interviews with far-right figures such as Gavin McInnes,[27][28] Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, and Christopher Cantwell.[27][29][11] Smith has called Fuentes a "fellow traveler", according to the SPLC.[11] In 2021, The New Republic called Smith "a Nazi sympathizer".[27] The SPLC noted that Smith is Jewish and has disagreed with far-right figures on the creation of a white ethnostate and the alt-right's tactics.[29] Debating with Fuentes, the SPLC said, Smith argued for "hard-right libertarian viewpoints".[29]

Personal life

Smith has two children with his wife.[13]

See also

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