Consistent libertarianism is incomprehensible to state partisans

10/05/2005 Mises Wire Robert Blumen

And so I’m the subject of a funny expose on FrontPage Magazine today. Really, there is nothing too complicated about why the left today looks better than the right (and its unthinking defenses of Bush): the right holds the balance of federal power and the left doesn’t.

It’s the flipside of the 1990s, when the Republicans attacked Clinton foreign policy for its nation-building overrearch and democrat imperialism etc. while the left warmed up to the domestic and international uses of the armed forces. It’s all about power. Libertarianism is contra power.

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