The Republican Party was never libertarian in the slightest. The fact that a few republicans hold a few high priority positions in common with libertarians, does not make them libertarians. Libertarians are so much more than "small government capitalists" that saying such amounts to a gross inaccuracy. Additionally, a rather large minority of libertarians reject "small government capitalism." Libertarian democrats are harder to identify because of different priorities which force them to place Democratic Party unity to stop the Republican Party, ahead of many of their libertarian interests. A slightly similar kind of reasoning can be found among libertarian republicans. I wish the best for both at teaching libertarianism with in their respective parties.
Could be true, but I'm an old man and I have never met a libertarian who was a democrat. Maybe it's different where you live.
I worded my comment wrong about the RP being libertarian. What I meant to say was that libertarians belonged to the Republican Party before there was a Libertarian Party. The LP has been a one man show and even now more libertarians are RP than LP. Just the same, Republicans were smeared as libertines during the FDR administration. Republicans opposed marijuana prohibition in 1937 and were raked over the coals for that by the socialists.
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