Dave Smith | |
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Born | David Smith April 20, 1983 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Comedian |
Political party | Libertarian[1][2][3][4][5] |
Other political affiliations | Mises Caucus |
Children | 2 |
Website | comicdavesmith |
David Smith (born April 20, 1983) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, and libertarian political commentator.[6][7][8] He has frequently appeared on Fox News Channel's Kennedy[9][10] and The Greg Gutfeld Show.[11][12][13] Additionally he was a recurring panelist on CNN's S.E. Cupp: Unfiltered.[14]
Smith is a member of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party.[15] As of 2022, Smith was reportedly running the party's social media.[16]
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.[17]
He hosts the Part of the Problem podcast and cohosts the comedy podcast Legion of Skanks.[6][11][18][19] He has made appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience and Timcast.[20][21][22][23][6]
He was the MC for FreedomFest, a libertarian festival, in 2021,[24] and a featured speaker there in 2022.[16] Smith was running the Libertarian Party's social media as of 2022, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[16] He is scheduled to speak at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention.[25]
Smith is a member of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party.[15][26][27][28][29] Smith said in a 2017 Reason interview that he "became a libertarian through the Ron Paul movement".[30] 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".[31] He said to Reason in 2021 that he did not plan to vaccinate himself or his child against COVID-19.[31][20] Reason described him as "a vocal opponent of wokeness and political correctness".[31] An admirer of the anarcho-capitalist economist Murray Rothbard, he told Reason that like Rothbard he would abolish government if he could.[32]
Smith has been noted for interviews and debates with far-right figures such as Gavin McInnes,[33][34] Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, and Christopher Cantwell.[33][35][16] Smith has called Fuentes a "fellow traveler", according to the SPLC.[16] In 2021, The New Republic called Smith "a Nazi sympathizer".[33] 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.[35] Debating with Fuentes, the SPLC said, Smith argued for "hard-right libertarian viewpoints".[35]
Smith has two children with his wife.[18]