Tag-Teaming the “Libertarian Moment”

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The Washington Monthly:

August 13, 2014 3:05 PM by Ed Kilgore

 

Tag-Teaming the “Libertarian Moment”

 

Let’s hope Robert Draper (a genuinely fine writer) has enjoyed the buzz over his “Libertarian Moment” article in the New York Times Magazine. The substance of the piece is not holding up real well.

 

I haven’t kept up with all the pounding it’s taken, but I’ve obviously focused on one prong of the “Libertarian Moment” argument, that the Republican Party is on the brink of having such a moment. It sure does not look apparent to me, even if you assume Rand Paul can beat the long odds against winning the 2016 presidential nomination. As I’ve argued here and elsewhere, what Draper and others seem to view as a “libertarian” tendency within the GOP is actually a “constitutional conservative” ideology

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