Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
“Since Trump’s election to his first term in 2016, Reason has mostly minimized Trump’s authoritarianism and has devoted more energy to dismissing and patronizing people for their fears than reporting on Trump himself. … Reason’s rightward drift is itself part of a broader phenomenon, which has worsened since the rise of the paleolibertarian movement and Hoppeanism in the 90s, and culminated in the takeover of the Libertarian Party by the far-right ‘Mises Caucus’ … to be clear, the problem is not just with right-wing libertarians abandoning the primary libertarian duty of denouncing and resisting the authoritarian state. There is also a serious problem of those on the so-called left who devote more energy to fighting liberals and Democrats than fighting actual fascists, and in some cases actually seek common ground with fascists while denouncing the center-left as enemy number one.” (02/23/25)