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| Subject: A Battle for the Soul of the Libertarian Party – Part 1 Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:41 am | |
| Two giants in the libertarian and Libertarian world fought in Manhattan this week. The capital L is for the political party; the other represents the ideology. It wasn’t a fight for leadership or voting control of the party – that will come next year. This battle at the SoHo Forum was for the very soul of the party. Are the people in the room about winning political offices, or winning people to the cause, or, perhaps, both?
Blood and SoilThe Libertarian vs. libertarian war broke hot after the weekend of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA, back in August of 2017. After that infamous weekend – which featured the murder of progressive activist Heather Heyer – Nick Sarwark, Chairman of the Libertarian Party (LP), took the opportunity to sign a statement disavowing fascism and imploring Tom Woods to do the same. Woods is an Ivy League-educated Ph.D. historian and prominent libertarian author and podcaster, as well as a senior fellow of the Mises Institute. He was also the target of thinly veiled accusations of racism by establishment Libertarians, including Mr. Sarwark, over his involvement in the League of the South, an organization that participated in the Charlottesville rally. Mr. Woods responded to the petition with scorn. Having made no racist claims or statements, Woods has proclaimed the petitioners drama queens who had no right to a disavowal of a position that couldn’t be credited to him. - Quote :
- Them: "Woods, you must sign this statement disavowing fascism!" Me: "Go jump in a lake, drama queen." Them: "The extreme Right is a growing threat." Me: "It's a sliver of marginalized people with no influence."
News in 2018: 25 people rally on anniversary of Charlottesville. — Tom Woods (@ThomasEWoods) August 13, 2018 Sarwark sent out a tweet calling the Mises Institute “the preferred choice of actual Nazis.” The attack on Woods and his allies aligned as an attack against an entire wing of the LP – the Mises Caucus, which values fidelity to core principles over much else, including electoral success – becoming a formalized group within the party. They aligned not just in support of Woods but in opposition to an LP that chose Gary Johnson and William Weld as Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominees, respectively, in 2016.
https://www.libertynation.com/a-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-libertarian-party-part-1/
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