Review of 'The Individualists' by Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi
Every social movement, no matter how iconoclastic, has its traditions. The live-free-or-die hard-liners who gathered at the 2016 Libertarian Party presidential-candidate debate honored one of their traditions when they booed their eventual nominee, Gary Johnson. On the stage with Johnson were Austin Petersen (an activist who later defected to the Republicans) and Darryl Perry, a talking head who co-founded the New Hampshire Liberty Party. Moderator Larry Elder (currently seeking the Republican nomination for president) asked, “Should someone have to have a government-issued license to drive a car?”
Petersen: “Hell, no!”
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Tal Fortgang is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a fellow at SAPIR: Ideas for a Thriving Jewish Future.
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