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

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    Republicans who weren’t happy with Trump co-opted the Libertarian movement and started identifying as Libertarian without actually changing their values or beliefs.

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      Libertarianism had an active conservative population long before Trump was around. They’re the “taxes are theft and government gets in the way of the free market” conservatives dialed to 11

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        In much the same way that cemeteries have an active population of dead people. The Venn diagram of Libertarians and right-wing assholes is largely just a circle.