The Libertarian Party compared slavery to affordable health care in an attack on former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner.

  • 🖖USS-Ethernet
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    1811 months ago

    Republicans who weren’t happy with Trump co-opted the Libertarian movement and started identifying as Libertarian without actually changing their values or beliefs.

    • @NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org
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      1411 months ago

      Libertarianism had an active conservative population long before Trump was around. They’re the “taxes are theft and government gets in the way of the free market” conservatives dialed to 11

      • Can-Utility
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        211 months ago

        In much the same way that cemeteries have an active population of dead people. The Venn diagram of Libertarians and right-wing assholes is largely just a circle.