There are two types of Libertarians, there are people who actually believe in liberty and there are hyper-authoritarian jackasses who just want to tell everyone what to do like Ayn Rand and her followers
The US Libertarian party has an even more authoritarian agenda than Trump. And this is really not at all surprising because Fascists never call themselves fascists, that brand doesn't sell. Hitler's first speech to the NASDAP begins, 'Peace, we want peace'. It is really, really easy to wrap up communism or fascism as being about freedom and that is exactly what Stalin and Mao and Hitler did and exactly what the Rand Paul, Xi, and the BitCoin Ponzi schemers are doing today. So like 'socialism' it is not a term I see as being at all useful. One of the Kremlin assets I monitor is constantly talking about the need to protect the freedom of others pushing the Moscow line. Every single one of the men whose causes he has taken up has been accused of rape or sexual assault, every single one. But he presents himself as the guardian of 'freedom' and 'liberty' and claims that the only enemy of freedom is government.
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