Libertarians are just as likely to become normal liberals as they are to move further right. The legalize gay weed types were always just liberals who didnt like how socially conservative the democrats are, there was a similar phenomena with the lib dems in the UK during the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown years.
Additionally among the right, they tend to be non interventionist which is what the American right was before the internationalism of the Reagan administration.
The legalize gay weed types were always just liberals who didnt like how socially conservative the democrats are
In my far too extensive experience with libertarians, it seems like the majority are conservatives (certainly on economic issues) who have a pet issue or two that differs from Republican party orthodoxy (pot and LGBT rights are the classic examples). I think that's a strong predictor of where they're likely to go when they realize libertarianism is nonsense.
they tend to be non interventionist which is what the American right was before the internationalism of the Reagan administration
There was certainly an interventionist wing of the Republican Party before Reagan, but party orthodoxy was firmly imperialist. Look at Eisenhower and Nixon, and look at how a recurring attack on Democrats was that they were "soft on communism [abroad]." From about the start of WWII through at least the end of the Cold War (and still largely up through today) there was this bipartisan idea that "politics should stop at the water's edge." Sure, candidates would make hay out of foreign policy blunders during election cycles, but both parties were broadly in favor of using the military to attack anything hostile to capitalism wherever it might crop up.
The american right pre Reagan was not really tied to the Republican party in the same way that it became, there was a movement post Nixon though to make the party more conservative. Republicans were a liberal party and democrats were a segregationist social democratic party. The john birch society right and the kkk right were different on their views around foreign intervention.
Also being a conservative who supports LGBT rights and supports legalizing drugs makes no sense unless their a single issue gun voter or something.
Libertarians are just as likely to become normal liberals as they are to move further right. The legalize gay weed types were always just liberals who didnt like how socially conservative the democrats are, there was a similar phenomena with the lib dems in the UK during the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown years.
Additionally among the right, they tend to be non interventionist which is what the American right was before the internationalism of the Reagan administration.
In my far too extensive experience with libertarians, it seems like the majority are conservatives (certainly on economic issues) who have a pet issue or two that differs from Republican party orthodoxy (pot and LGBT rights are the classic examples). I think that's a strong predictor of where they're likely to go when they realize libertarianism is nonsense.
There was certainly an interventionist wing of the Republican Party before Reagan, but party orthodoxy was firmly imperialist. Look at Eisenhower and Nixon, and look at how a recurring attack on Democrats was that they were "soft on communism [abroad]." From about the start of WWII through at least the end of the Cold War (and still largely up through today) there was this bipartisan idea that "politics should stop at the water's edge." Sure, candidates would make hay out of foreign policy blunders during election cycles, but both parties were broadly in favor of using the military to attack anything hostile to capitalism wherever it might crop up.
The american right pre Reagan was not really tied to the Republican party in the same way that it became, there was a movement post Nixon though to make the party more conservative. Republicans were a liberal party and democrats were a segregationist social democratic party. The john birch society right and the kkk right were different on their views around foreign intervention.
Also being a conservative who supports LGBT rights and supports legalizing drugs makes no sense unless their a single issue gun voter or something.
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For some reason like 50% of the people I've ever met from Ohio are this.
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