Source: Chris Spangle
by Chris Spangle
“If you were a libertarian during [the immediate post-9/11] era, do you remember saying something like, ‘Our interventions create terrorists. When our military invades a country and kills innocents, it is only logical that the rational people living there will fight back?’ That same feedback loop is forming here, and it will reach our cities if we let it. So while I applaud Trump’s efforts to bring peace to the Middle East, we have to be honest that he is not a peace president. We cannot ignore that he gave ICE a budget larger than the Marines, that his administration used Palantir to build an AI-powered surveillance state, and that our government is conditioning us to accept tanks in the streets as if we are under siege when one block in one city has only fifty protestors acting like fools.” (10/09/25)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/let-me-talk-to-the-longtime-libertarians