What is a libertarian and what aspects of the Democratic platform do they support vs the GOP platform
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Libertarian originally meant a Left Libertarian: basically someone either anarcho-socialist, anarcho-communist, or someone very similar, such as a Libertarian Socialist.
Full disclosure: Libertarian Socialist is my political position.
Then a guy named Murray Rothbard led a movement to reclaim this word for Right-Wing Libertarians.
Right-Wing Libertarians are close to anarcho-capitalist, which is not a very defensible position. Even the ones that aren’t, tend to be Authoritarian if you challenge them on certain points.
An example is Ben Shapiro who is a well-known right-winger who claims to be a Libertarian, except that he wants the government to implement significant restrictions on transgender individuals, which is not something a true Libertarian would advocate for.
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