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Re:Peter Thiel Is Exploring the Creation of a Conservative C... by jballanc on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:20PM (#16067778)
At least in the US, libertarians typically consider themselves "right" of the Republican party. It's confusing, because right/left in politics exists on multiple dimensions. One of those is religion/social morality, and on that dimension libertarians are far to the left of mainstream Republicans. On the economics/gov't size dimension, however, they are solidly to the right.
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Re:Peter Thiel Is Exploring the Creation of a Conservative C... by humanrebar on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:47PM (#16067884)
The Republican party is more diverse than most commentators appreciate. Trump didn't even have a majority of the vote in the Republican primary. Consider that the median Republican voter did not consider Trump to be their first choice. And that basically all the candidates except for Kasich ran to the right of Trump.

Also, libertarians are generally to the right of the Democratic party on religious liberty issues. Hardcore libertarians have no problems with people having kooky or unhealthy religious practices, for that matter.

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