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Libertarian Party Thinks It’s OK to Tweet at Black People About Picking Crops (newrepublic.com)

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The Libertarian Party compared slavery to affordable health care in an attack on former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ron Paul and his racist newsletter were a thing in Libertarian circles at least 15 years before the "it's happening" meme. I had a Libertarian roommate in the early '90s whose only gripe with Reagan was that he expanded government too much. And of course the Libertarian Party was started by those noted socialists the Koch brothers.

I'm not really sure where the pining for past glory on the part of American libertarians comes from. Seems like this is another case where the American definition of a term has crowded out the European definition that many might prefer.