This is an amazing read I don't have time to finish atm, saving for later reading for sure. The libertarian piece of this puzzle is in Nancy MacLean's book "Democracy in Chains", which goes into the economist James Buchanan and Charles Koch's part in all of this, and what I've read so far of this fits it as if it were cut with a jig saw. There are about a hundred other libertarian think tanks beyond Heritage, all of them dedicated to Kevin Roberts' "bloodless revolution". That is, hollowing out the USG beurocracy to as Koch/Buchanan called it, "enchain Leviathan", (another biblical reference), Buchanan's beef also goes back to Brown. The aim is to end the people's ability to act collectively, Koch started fuding them all in the late 90s, early 00s (think Mercatus center, ALEC, Cato Institute et al). It's wild that all of this stuff is pretty much the conspiracy hidden behind all the other conspiracies.
It is actually a good thing the libertarian faction doesn't align "perfectly" with the CN faction, cause eventually, they will butt heads, and that may be our only hope....
There's a ton that can be said about Libertarians for sure. In the part (Part 6) where I'll be covering them—as well as the other 3 non "predominant" groups: Red Pillers, Conspiracy Theorists and Blue Collars—I'll be focused more on their "value" systems and less so on the individual details of each group. The idea for that half of the series is to really zoom out on the MAGA movement to understand how they are fundamentally incompatible with America and to look at the ways we might overcome it.
This is an amazing read I don't have time to finish atm, saving for later reading for sure. The libertarian piece of this puzzle is in Nancy MacLean's book "Democracy in Chains", which goes into the economist James Buchanan and Charles Koch's part in all of this, and what I've read so far of this fits it as if it were cut with a jig saw. There are about a hundred other libertarian think tanks beyond Heritage, all of them dedicated to Kevin Roberts' "bloodless revolution". That is, hollowing out the USG beurocracy to as Koch/Buchanan called it, "enchain Leviathan", (another biblical reference), Buchanan's beef also goes back to Brown. The aim is to end the people's ability to act collectively, Koch started fuding them all in the late 90s, early 00s (think Mercatus center, ALEC, Cato Institute et al). It's wild that all of this stuff is pretty much the conspiracy hidden behind all the other conspiracies.
It is actually a good thing the libertarian faction doesn't align "perfectly" with the CN faction, cause eventually, they will butt heads, and that may be our only hope....
There's a ton that can be said about Libertarians for sure. In the part (Part 6) where I'll be covering them—as well as the other 3 non "predominant" groups: Red Pillers, Conspiracy Theorists and Blue Collars—I'll be focused more on their "value" systems and less so on the individual details of each group. The idea for that half of the series is to really zoom out on the MAGA movement to understand how they are fundamentally incompatible with America and to look at the ways we might overcome it.