Donald Trump Defeats Thomas Massie
Libertarians are to vote and not be heard
Donald Trump won the 2024 election, in part, because of some support from libertarian voters; a bloc of voters he personally courted by being the first major party nominee to ever address the Libertarian Party seeking their nomination and support. Probably he would have won regardless, libertarians are not a sizable voting bloc, but the Trump coalition included not an insignificant percentage of libertarians. When Trump won, he very quickly pardoned Ross Ulbricht, which was a pet issue of many libertarians, and then that was it. The romance was over. President Trump almost immediately pivoted to attacking the most libertarian member of Congress, Representative Thomas Massie from Kentucky.
I wrote earlier this year about libertarians being expelled from the Trump coalition:
Conservatives were happy to have libertarians help them elect Donald Trump, but once they were in power the message immediately became for libertarians to shut their mouths and fall in line, or else.
And here are our MAGA friends telling us how much they hate libertarians and how irrelevant libertarians are, while still expecting libertarian support in the future because we wouldn’t want to get a Democrat elected, right? Why, a Democrat might start some unnecessary new war and blow up the budget.
It is hilarious that the people who spent a record amount on a Congressional race to defeat the single libertarian representative in the country because he expected Trump to govern on what he campaigned on want to complain about spite from libertarians. The gaslighting is a little too transparent.
At the very least, this should be the final example needed for libertarians to realize that conservatives, the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and MAGA can never be trusted. Quoting again from my previous post:
Like Democrats, their only interest is in attaining and wielding political power without constraint, while libertarians, largely, want to limit and decentralize political power.
Helping to elect these people based on some campaign rhetoric in the future would be insane, and was probably insane in 2024. That said, I’m no longer a believer in the idea that participating in politics will ever lead to limiting political power in any way whatsoever. Coalition with conservatives within the Republican Party is an obvious failure, and no third-party will ever be relevant unless it’s as some kind of rebranding of the existing parties. The only way forward is to simply sit back and watch as the average American voter cheers as the Empire bankrupts them and eats itself into a gradual irrelevancy.