Politics

The Insidious Libertarian-to-Alt-Right Pipeline

Just Askin’

Is it just a phase they go through—or is there something about libertarianism that attracts, well, uh, you know, racist kooks?

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Libertarianism has an alt-right problem. Many prominent leaders of the alt-right have, at some point, identified as libertarian. I am curious as to… why?

Milo Yiannopoulos has billed himself (and has been

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