We’re fewer than 200 days out from the presidential election, and the Libertarian Party just gained its presumptive nominee for president of the United States. Rep. Justin Amash, an independent from Michigan, announced his candidacy Tuesday evening and, in so doing, made it ever more likely there will be one less pro-liberty voice in Washington, D.C.

If we want more liberty and smaller government, then Amash should have just stayed in Congress.