FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, did you even read my reply? You accuse me of being confused and then ascribe a list of incorrect policies that I certainly don’t agree with and have made plain I don’t in over thirteen years on this forum.
I don’t give a damn what you claim some political party advocates. I have my own positions and I will continue to use the term libertarian to mean an advocate for individual liberty and autonomy.
That is what I meant by confused, you pretend to be against those things that libertarianism is founded on.
Do you think they had to make up a new word because they agreed with conservatives on economics?
When we hear a politician proclaim himself libertarian instead of conservative, then we know that he means that he is socially liberal, that he is OK with the liberal/libertarian social gains of the last 60 years.