Wed Mar 23, 2022 – 12:35 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — For the second time in two months, Jonathon was joined by Andrew Lawton, a libertarian writer and podcaster, on the latest episode of The Van Maren Show. This week the two reflected on the Freedom Convoy and waded into a discussion about the Conservative Party leadership race.
Lawton called the opportunity to witness and cover the Freedom Convoy a “privilege” and described his experience on the ground.
“There was a fairly unified core set of values,” he said. “I mean, obviously you have a range of people in terms of what’s brought them to that issue and what’s brought them to, generally speaking, that cause of freedom and resisting vaccine mandates and vaccine passports and all that. But there was a bit of a Rorschach effect just because it didn’t really have — as much as the media like to pretend otherwise — a hierarchy and centralized leadership. There were certainly spheres of power … but this was very grassroots, and it became, as a result, difficult to put into one particular box to form a neat narrative about what the convoy was, let alone who.”
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