Libertarians for Trump!

NEW YORK (PNN) - March 15, 2016 - Libertarians for Trump has its work cut out for it in mobilizing massive support for Donald Trump within the Libertarian community. For there are some Libertarians who oppose supporting any politician for political office, even a 99% pure one such as Dr. Ron Paul. Let me just say that there is nothing, nothing at all, incompatible between libertarianism and voting, or supporting political candidates. Both Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard can be considered political junkies, and you won’t find too many better Libertarians than those two.

Suppose we were all slaves, and the master said we could have a democratic election; we could vote for overseer Baddie, who would whip us unmercifully once per day, or overseer Goodie, who would do exactly the same thing, but only once per month. We all voted for the latter. Is this incompatible with libertarianism? Would this make us worse Libertarians? Anyone who thinks so does not really understand this philosophy.

There are several issues upon which Libertarians do not and cannot support Donald Trump. For example, protectionism. But, typically, regarding the issues where Trump deviates from libertarianism, so do the other candidates.

We readily admit that the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party will very likely have views much closer to ours than those of Trump.

But it is our goal to throw our weight behind the candidate who has a reasonable chance of actually becoming President of the Fascist Police States of Amerika whose views are closest to libertarianism.

When put this way, it is clear that Donald Trump is the most congruent with our perspective. This is true mainly because of foreign policy. Of the three - foreign policy, economic policy and person liberties - the former is the most important. As Murray Rothbard and Bob Higgs have demonstrated over and over again, FPSA foreign policy determines what occurs in economics and in the field of personal liberties. Foreign policy is the dog that wags the other two tails.

We readily concede that Donald Trump is no Ron Paul on foreign policy or anything else for that matter. However, compared to his Republican alternatives, Trump stands head and shoulders above them. He has said, time and time again, things like, “Look at what we did in Iraq. It’s a mess. Look at what we did in Libya. It’s a mess there too. Are we going to repeat our mistakes in Syria? Not on my watch.” Would Cruz or Rubio ever say anything like that? To ask this question is to answer it.

Also, very importantly, who is the one candidate who went out of his way to not antagonize Russia and President Vladimir Putin? It is Trump. Do we really want to fight World War III with Russia? With Trump at the helm, we minimize the chances of this catastrophe occurring. Yes, future President Trump wants a strong military, but with only a few exceptions - fewer than the other Republican candidates - only to defend our country.