Dave: No disagreement whatsoever, but that isn’t what the OP is saying. He/she is taking a group of unconnected and disparate examples and using this as a wholesale repudiation of libertarianism.

Not only is this simplistic and wrong, but it completely ignores the fact that libertarianism has NEVER been tried as a governing system in the U.S.

To claim that Dubya was in any way libertarian is nonsensical and ignores all facts to the contrary. A simple glance at Patriot I/II would destroy that assertion completely.

And then you have the neat conflation of libertarianism and racism, using Rand Paul as an example. This conveniently omits the fact that Rand Paul isn’t a racist and is entitled to his opinions on the CRA.

If we want to discuss and then discredit libertarianism based on the facts, that’s one thing. And, for the record, I’m not in any way, shape or form, libertarian. Haven’t ever been and won’t ever be. But I get sick and tired of this ham-handed, broadbrush Soviet-style disquisition from trolls like IForget.