Dave Rubin: right-winger in denial

Recently some have referred to Dave Rubin as a "right winger in denial" and a snippet from his latest interview on Reason TV sums up exactly why.

"There is no home for an actual liberal [on the Left]. This is why recently on my show I've found it much easier to build bridges with guys that five years ago I thought I would never talk to. Just in the last couple of weeks I've had Glenn Beck on, I've had Dennis Prager on, Ben Shapiro. These guys are staunch conservatives, and yet because we care about liberty, individual liberty, even if I disagree with them on some tax stuff ... "

Here Rubin insists he disagrees with them on "some tax stuff", but does he? For those who've forgotten here is the tax plan he outlined where he proposes a flat 15% tax for all earning above $50,000.

Rubin even has a tax plan in mind. Somehow his plan is even more extreme than Trumps and Paul Ryans pic.twitter.com/Dg7Pdf4VNK

— Tom Bloke (@21logician) October 10, 2016

By coincidence or not that also happens to be the exact same tax plan put forward by the libertarian Republican Presidential candidate Rand Paul's during his campaign.

Also gushing praise for this tax plan happened to be Glenn Beck who said "I'm telling you, this is erotic, it is so good" and described it as "phenomenal".

Paul's tax plan according to his website was also devised in consultation with Steve Forbes, who also presented a PragerU video arguing in favour of nearly exactly the same plan.

And finally guess who else is in favour of a flat tax rate (albeit "around 20%" rather than Rubin's 15%)? Ben Shapiro.

The reason Rubin finds it "much easier to build bridges" with people like Rand Paul, Beck, Prager and Shapiro is because he's a right-wing libertarian who in actual fact broadly agrees on a lot more with them than anyone on the Left.

Rubin is basically trolling the Left at this point. When your tax plans closely align with Rand Paul and Ben Carson you are not on the Left. His criticism of the likes of Shapiro, Beck or Prager and other right-wing libertarians is well overdue if he was honest about "cleaning up my own side".