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« on: October 11, 2022, 02:10:09 PM »

As in Paulbot libertarianism? Free trade and eliminating the welfare state aren't winning positions right now, and all that libertarian enthusiasm for cryptocurrencies and Web 3.0 echoes "just learn to code" to their new and vitally important Rust Belt constituents. As others have said, Republicans would improve in the Sun Belt but struggle as much as ever with POC there, and Democrats might jump on the opportunity to retake some white working class voters.

A decade on from the Great Recession, it's clear that libertarianism lost out on the fight for the post-neoliberal soul of America. Most of us no longer believe that pushing the envelope of new digital technologies far enough will fix everything (compare what people were saying about Musk and Zuckerberg and social media as a force for democratization in the Arab Spring with what they're saying now), and with geopolitics going the way they are, there's more want for a stronger state than ever before IMO.

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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2022, 08:38:27 PM »

I think the answer is "the ones you're seeing". Compared to 20 years ago, the GOP is much more inflexibly against financial regulation (and under Trump indeed the raw number of federal regulations was actually just barely cut), while things like interventionism, opposition to gay marriage, and the Drug War have largely fallen by the wayside.

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