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The Libertarian Party is collapsing. Here’s why
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| Contributor | WA Indy |
| Last Edited | WA Indy Oct 09, 2022 02:22pm |
| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Oct 09, 2022 02:00pm |
| Description | Only a few years after its greatest triumph, the Libertarian Party is collapsing, torn apart by an insurgency of alt-right sympathizers with racist tendencies. Libertarianism, the idea that state power must be absolutely minimized, relies on ideas of individual rights that seem flatly inconsistent with racism. And yet libertarian rhetoric has always had powerful attractions for those who wanted to resist racial equality. How is that possible?
There is in fact a connection, but it is one of psychology and political history rather than logic. |
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