Libertarian-leaning right-wingers were repeatedly derided as ideologically and electorally irrelevant during the Trump era. And after the Libertarian Party’s disappointing 2016 presidential ticket of former Govs. Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, from a strategic perspective, Trump’s “national conservative” movement seemed to have a point in deriding them. Save for a residual but nominal conservative concern about overspending, libertarian-leaners were a dying breed.
Or so we thought.
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