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The crazy part is how much politics has evolved since Libertarianism was founded. Now it's flooded with a bunch of right wing social agendas with the worst economic policies.
Grover Norquist should be who you link to now. He's the guy who hates government so much he wanted one so small he could drown it in a bathtub. He's also the reason their economic ideas are so embarrassingly bad the party never gets taken seriously.
He's just an acolyte of Milton Friedman and Murray rothbard. Not all that special himself. But yes all the evolved "libertarians" evolved backwards.
Great point. Murray Rothbard made it, Grover Norquist marketed it, and the right couldn't get enough. I blame Milton Friedman for a lot but he was just using Chicago School of Economics methodology so it was bound to be repeated by someone else. But Rothbard was instrumental in making it a hard right idea.