Source: The Dispatch
by Bobby Miller
“At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, [Vivek] Ramaswamy labeled his view as ‘national libertarianism.’ He later described the view to the New York Times’[s] Ezra Klein as a strand of America First focused on ‘dismantling the existence of that nanny state in all of its forms: the entitlement state, the regulatory state, and the foreign nanny state.’ Listen to him a bit more closely, though, and Ramaswamy’s vision begins to appear more like an ambitious attempt to repackage libertarianism in nationalist garb. … The MAGA intelligentsia Ramaswamy is trying to hitch his wagon to … have come to wholly reject the wisdom of free trade, civic nationalism in favor of ethnic nationalism, and immigration of any kind. For them, libertarianism hasn’t just failed; it is the source of ‘rot in the existing order’ that they seek to overhaul.” (11/19/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/how-libertarian-is-national-libertarianism/