A CARBON TAX? I can hardly think of something less libertarian, besides gun control.
I didn’t surmise that Johnson was taking more from Hillary but that the total third party vote was (factoring in Stein). But maybe he will, what a lark! His main appeal (besides to potheads) seems to be to RINOs who’d vote Hillary over Trump. Here in IL in 2010 we had some no-name win the rat nomintion for LT Governor and get forced off the ticket cause he hit his wife or something, he then ran for Governor as an Independent and we celebrated cause we thought he’d take votes from the rat, but what votes did he probably get? Those from democrats who wouldn’t support the incumbent rat Governor and may have voted Republican if they didn’t have the other option.
I expect the Libertarian party may split apart into fake libertarian liberal and strident anarco-capitalist fantasy factions. Nothing is holding the factions together other than a shared support for weed.
So if Johnson is indeed trying to poach republicans on the fence about Trump, then it’s well worth letting people know about this.