The author’s name was not familiar. He is in fact a Libertarian.
Michael Tanner is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute where he heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on poverty and social welfare policy, health care reform, and Social Security.
“He is in fact a Libertarian.”
example LP position:
“We support the removal of governmental impediments to free trade. Political freedom and escape from tyranny demand that individuals not be unreasonably constrained by government in the crossing of political boundaries. Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national border”
rest of LP platform:
Reading that, I don’t see a nickel’s difference between the LP and the far, far left Democrats ... so, if in fact Tanner is an LP, then pretty ironic for him to be the one pretending to be upset about his fake claim that Trump is a Democrat ...