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Libertarianism as Extreme Middle-of-the-Roadism

by | Dec 5, 2016 |

While the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate Gary Johnson unsuccessfully tried to sell voters a lukewarm version of libertarianism as the good policies from both Democrats and Republicans but none of the bad (“neither too hot nor too cold”), there’s an...

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