Republicans who weren’t happy with Trump co-opted the Libertarian movement and started identifying as Libertarian without actually changing their values or beliefs.
Libertarianism had an active conservative population long before Trump was around. They’re the “taxes are theft and government gets in the way of the free market” conservatives dialed to 11
Ron Paul and his racist newsletter were a thing in Libertarian circles at least 15 years before the “it’s happening” meme. I had a Libertarian roommate in the early '90s whose only gripe with Reagan was that he expanded government too much. And of course the Libertarian Party was started by those noted socialists the Koch brothers.
I’m not really sure where the pining for past glory on the part of American libertarians comes from. Seems like this is another case where the American definition of a term has crowded out the European definition that many might prefer.
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New Hampshire Libertarians is what they should be called. Somehow that state took over the party and immediately went off the rails.
Republicans who weren’t happy with Trump co-opted the Libertarian movement and started identifying as Libertarian without actually changing their values or beliefs.
Libertarianism had an active conservative population long before Trump was around. They’re the “taxes are theft and government gets in the way of the free market” conservatives dialed to 11
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Ron Paul and his racist newsletter were a thing in Libertarian circles at least 15 years before the “it’s happening” meme. I had a Libertarian roommate in the early '90s whose only gripe with Reagan was that he expanded government too much. And of course the Libertarian Party was started by those noted socialists the Koch brothers.
I’m not really sure where the pining for past glory on the part of American libertarians comes from. Seems like this is another case where the American definition of a term has crowded out the European definition that many might prefer.