If not for the open hostility of the establishment faction that broke away as Clinton-voting NeverTrumpers, the libertarian viewpoint would be wholly accomodated within the GOP and lend significant strength to the party.
Can’t blame libertarians when the GOPe for many years shut them out of the process entirely. The treatment of Ron Paul in 2008/2012 was an especially shameful chapter in the history of GOP politics.
I've always wondered why so many conservatives have no objections to the not so veiled liberalism of neoconservatives on many issues, but who think that libertarians are beyond the pale.
Can’t blame libertarians when the GOPe for many years shut them out of the process entirely. The treatment of Ron Paul in 2008/2012 was an especially shameful chapter in the history of GOP politics.
I think there's a significant difference between the (lower case) libertarianism of Ron and Rand Paul, who are Constitutional conservatives (i.e. minarchists) vs. the essential anarchism of the capital-L Libertarian Party.