| | I, too, sense a turn in the Republican Party away from the libertarianism of Goldwater/Reagan. As limited as it was, it was there in principle and many hoped its limit was due to the Democratic dominated congress. The issue has always been part of the conservative debate since the inception of the movement in the 1950s. The so-called fusion of classical liberals and Burkian conservatives was never quite convincing. Did we libertarians (or classical liberals) err by abandoning the Republican/conservative movement? Or was it doomed from the out start as Rand believed?
Is this an opportunity to make common cause with the libertarian-leaning conservatives who are weary of the low priority given to liberty by family-welfare Republicans, public-good neo-conservatives, and culture-war social conservatives?
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