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Title: Libertarians for Trump
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Published: Mar 20, 2016
Author: Walter E Block
Post Date: 2016-06-29 11:36:24 by Gatlin
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Share Dr. Donald Miller (donaldwmiller@gmail.com) and I (wblock@loyno.edu) are starting up a new group to be called Libertarians for Trump. LFT has its work cut out for it in mobilizing massive support for Donald Trump within the libertarian community. For there are some libertarians who oppose supporting any politician for political office, even a 99% pure one such as Dr. Ron Paul. However, I dedicated this book to refuting arguments of that sort: Block, Walter E. 2012. Yes to Ron Paul and Liberty. New York: Ishi Press. (By the way, the foreward to that book – not written by me — contains, in my opinion, the single best short essay ever written about Dr. Paul). Let me just say that there is nothing, nothing at all, incompatible between libertarianism and voting, or supporting political candidates. Both Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard can be considered political junkies, and you won’t find too many better libertarians than those two. Read more here.
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
The problem with this approach is that, if successful, it signals to the Pubbies that they need only be less anti-freedom than the Dums in order to win libertarian votes - thus lessening the motivation to exceed that low standard in future election cycles. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. But, the perfect is the enemy of the good. It is our goal to throw our weight behind the candidate who has a reasonable chance of actually becoming President of the United States whose views are CLOSEST to libertarianism.
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