if you're an American who grew up during the 00s, there was a good while when right libertarianism was presented as a sort of "fiscally conservative but socially liberal" alternative to the rightly maligned two major parties, one that vociferously opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, supported gay marriage, abortion, and weed legalization, and presented basic criticisms of the police. The part of it that involved eliminating all government regulations and destroying all welfare programs was kept in the back behind a beaded curtain. When the only "left" alternative was the Green Party, it's easy to see how someone without a class analysis could see them as the only rational, progressive option.