Prior to the last presidential election, Trump was against foreign entanglements--Libertarian Platform plank 3.3. Trump also supported and signed a criminal justice reform act (plank 1.7), reduced government regulation (plank 2.8), made major steps toward peaceful relationships in the Middle East (plank 3.3), and encouraged private domestic energy production (plank 2.3). So, Trump had quite a bit of Libertarian idealism in his makeup.
But what the Libertarian Party accomplished in 2020 was giving us government vaccine mandates, growing foreign entanglements in a regional European war, huge government deficits, and growing inflation. How did the Libertarian Party accomplish this? In three states--Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin--the total Libertarian vote for Biden was 4.9, 5.3, and 1.9, respectively, times the Democrat vote margin for Biden inn those states.
Had Trump won those 3 states with the Libertarian vote he would still be our greatest modern day president.
So, Libertarians--particularly in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin--two plus years into the Biden administration, are you happy?
Is the unrestricted immigration (Libertarian Party Platform plank 3.4) worth giving up personal liberty (plank 1.1) and voting in vaccine mandates? Is immigration worth more government interference in the market? Is immigration worth more racial division? Is immigration worth a larger, more oppressive government? Is immigration worth a government seeking to and pressuring private businesses to shut down free speech? Is there anything you are getting as a Libertarian from the Biden administration other than unrestricted immigration? I could not find a Libertarian Party Platform that said "no mean tweets."
James L. Swofford
