Source: The Bulwark
by Shikha Dalmia
“The Libertarian Party, after a hostile takeover … has gone full MAGA … with the party’s national chair even supporting Trump over her own party’s nominal candidate. The mainstream libertarian movement has taken great pains to separate itself from the yahoos now in control of the party. But it too has settled into a heterodox, right wing-inflected bothsidesism. This is remarkable not only because Trump is an affront to every professed libertarian commitment — individual freedom, openness, cosmopolitanism, free enterprise, fiscal restraint, limited government, a tightly constrained executive — but also because libertarians have always seen themselves as the least partisan and most irreverent leg of Ronald Reagan’s fabled ‘three legged-stool’ of the Republican coalition. Yet when the most authoritarian Republican in history came along, they became quiescent, lost their mojo. Libertarians haven’t donned MAGA hats — except at the Libertarian Party — but they have abdicated just when they were most needed.” (10/23/24)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-trump-killed-libertarianism