All posts tagged "Libertarian"

A small father-daughter run wine company in Upstate New York stood up to President Donald Trump's tariffs in a "David and Goliath" showdown — and came out on top, according to reporting by CNN.

The company, called VOS Selections, agreed to be the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration, "which prompted a three-judge panel at the US Court of International Trade to strike down Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on Wednesday," the report said.

According to the decision, Trump "overstepped his authority by invoking emergency economic powers to impose sweeping tariffs on China, Canada, Mexico and other US trading partners."...

When Donald Trump delivers his speech at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday — he may be met with rancor.

That's because on Friday, chaos consumed the event on its second of four days. The theme is "Become Ungovernable".

"Ms. McArdle, I'd like to propose that we go tell Donald Trump to go f---- himself," blasted one of the apparent delegates, according to a video clip. ...

It's not (at least, not entirely) that I feel compelled to respond to this particular bullshit:

[rebelmouse-image 24748084 original_size="300x378" expand=1]Had I not sold my truck to a local auto mechanic, I wouldn't have seen this article in Time about libertarians. And that would have been a shame, because the article's really good, exposing how silly libertarians are without straining itself or dropping the formal journalist tone. Without coming out and saying it, it's easy to see how libertarianism, despite all the heavy-handed rhetoric about freedom, is fundamentally a right wing authoritarian philosophy that only has anti-authoritarian trappings because libertarians believe (sometimes rightly, sometimes not) that the federal government is an impediment to establishing the authoritarian society they crave. Getting the government out isn't about rejecting authority, but making individuals of the proper sex (male), proper race (white), and proper socio-economic status (property owners and independent businessmen) the ruling classes of a series of small societies.