"The Party of Lincoln is going to become the party of pissed off 55-plus white guys with GEDs," warns Republican strategist Rick Wilson, author of Everything Trump Touches Dies. Also: "There's a giant market opportunity for the Libertarian Party."
The Republican Party should take a more forceful and public stand on behalf of freedom and opportunity for all.
Trump used Twitter to blast Twitter for allegedly censoring several prominent conservative leaders.
"I'm gay married. You people don't care about that, do you?" They did not.
Devin Nunes gets the Richard Spencer treatment.
"I know that it's fun and that it can feel good, but step back and think about what you're accomplishing when you do this-are you persuading anyone?"
As on war and spending, the constitutional conservative approach to oversight is best demonstrated when the president is a Democrat.
So long as anything resembling legitimate elections continue to be held, no political coalition will gain a permanent lock on the future.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The Suicide of the West author explains his anti-Trumpism, evolution on culture-war issues, and growing attraction to libertarianism.
Woods' agent reportedly told him he was "feeling patriotic" on Independence Day.
One reason the national political press has almost always liked the Arizona maverick? He shares their disdain for the conservative media bubble.
When Kevin Williamson isn't welcome but Joseph Stalin is
Williamson's rhetoric is inflammatory, but his views on abortion are not beyond the pale.
"Left-wing authoritarians can be just as prejudiced, dogmatic, and extremist as right-wing authoritarians."
It's the conservative version of cradle-to-grave welfare.
If everything problematic is evil, silencing and punishing everything problematic becomes a social necessity.
They used to call themselves supporters of limited government. Some still do.
In 2017, the left eats its own and the right shows its true colors.
Conservative apologia for Roy Moore and hostility toward his opponent are anchored on an issue individual senators are highly unlikely to impact.
The times and trajectory of Max Eastman, progressive turned "libertarian conservative"
Can the conservative movement survive the election of a possible child molester?
If Ed Gillespie's foul campaign works, more conservatives will follow suit
Actual tax cuts simply don't stir the hearts of garden-variety liberals, new spending does.
There's a war on business on the way.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
What? Libertarianism is an intellectual and political tradition with roots in radical equality movements.
No, but believers in "Free Minds and Free Markets" should be in the forefront of attacking racism, anti-Semitism, and parochialism.
The Arizona senator calls for limited government, takes clear aim at Trump's authoritarianism, GOP big-spending.
The star was spotted wearing a "We Should All Be Feminists" T-shirt and carrying a book with Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises on it.
State lawmakers say porn is a public health crisis that causes rape and sex trafficking-but watch all you want as long as the state gets a cut.
"I'm for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well," said Lahren on The View last week.
True defenders of real liberalism need to take the word back from progressives and conservatives.
Inside an alternate Republican reality where the alt-right never happened
As long as conservatives are applauding a president like Trump, it's hard to see how libertarians will fit within the GOP, or a gathering like CPAC.
For all the things establishment conservatives think millennials should be against, they have a hard time articulating what young people should be for, and what that has to do with the Republican Party.
That it took them so long to see he is a false anti-PC messiah shows their moral bankruptcy
Trump is not presidential, competent or ideologically (or otherwise) coherent most of the time. The alternative doesn't sound that great, either.
Conservatives want to legislate free speech in higher education, too.
Don't scapegoat the right for this. You can spread the blame a lot more widely than that.
Amash, Paul, McMullin, Will, and Scalia will help keep the unpredictable billionaire in check.
Amash, Paul, McMullin, Will, and Scalia will help keep the unpredictable billionaire in check.
Backwards-looking attitudes about race, religion, and sex have been a hallmark of the Republican coalition for decades, and are hardly grounds for Hitler Youth comparisons.
As progressive protesters and "antifa" activists marched outside, white nationalists & "Trumpservatives" plotted within.
What future for the right wing of the movement against mass incarceration?
It hurts to admit that Trump isn't alien to conservative culture - he's its near-perfect expression.
Fear of a Trump presidency has put a number of libertarian-ish thinkers "with her."
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