Re:Libertarians Are Politically Homeless in the Trump Era
by dragonwriter on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:19PM
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> I doubt many libertarians harbored illusions that things would get better after 2016, no matter who won.
I know some big-L Libertarians were predicting Trump would produce or accelerate a collapse of the Republican Party which would leave the LP as its successor as a major party.
> Trump's election in itself proved the shabbiness of the "(S)he'll never win" argument.
Not really for libertarians; the LP, after all, did run a candidate, and despite the two weakest major party candidates by most measures in the post-WWII era, still didn't do much.
I know some big-L Libertarians were predicting Trump would produce or accelerate a collapse of the Republican Party which would leave the LP as its successor as a major party.
> Trump's election in itself proved the shabbiness of the "(S)he'll never win" argument.
Not really for libertarians; the LP, after all, did run a candidate, and despite the two weakest major party candidates by most measures in the post-WWII era, still didn't do much.