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| Subject: Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Libertarians Totally Exist Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:42 pm | |
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- [Justin] Amash is right that millions of Americans are unhappy with the choices the two major parties give them. But he is wrong in his implicit assumption that they yearn for a more consistently principled libertarianism.
Political analyst Lee Drutman showed this conclusively in a 2017 paper. Using data from a massive national poll sponsored by the Voter Study Group, he broke the U.S. electorate into four groups. The libertarians — socially liberal and economically conservative — were the smallest group, comprising only 4 percent of the electorate. Most of these people, moreover, were only slightly libertarian, meaning they are likelier to be suburban moderates than true Goldwaterites. This would be the same study that gave us this chart, which you’ll see shared on social media pretty frequently:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/libertarians-totally-exist/ |
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