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>>Ozarki+(OP)
I had no idea this was a campaign promise. Why? I don’t understand.

>>maplan+Q
I am active in libertarian circles and Ulbricht was a cause celebre. The 2024 election was a game of inches, and many libertarians I know voted Trump purely on this issue. It is possible this was a key way Trump eked out a victory.

>>monero+f3
Libertarians are very hard to take seriously because of shit like this. Nothing about Donald Trump is Libertarian.

>>dralle+C7
They just won something they cared about: perhaps you should be taking them even more seriously than you did.

And even if you are not a fan of a political group, you are the one being judgemental here on a factor that is very unlikely to be universal within the group.

Treating anyone according to political labels is divisive.

>>roboca+Xl
They got a single guy out of prison, but pretty much everything else in Trump's platform is diametrically opposed to libertarianism. It's hard to think of anything less libertarian than tariff-funded big government!

>>rafram+ss
Tariffs are not good for free market diehards. However the nuance is that foreign countries like China do not operate on a fair playing field, they want free access to our markets but prevent our champions from entering their's. Something must be done here. I'm not convinced tariffs are the best tool, but at least it's something.

In terms of small government, there is news about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) every single day. There will be a massive downsizing in the federal workforce and the regulatory state over the next 4 years. This move towards small government is the thing that excites me most.

>>monero+Ex
Trump has is proposing a 10% tariff on China, and a 25% tariff on Mexico.

Also he's handing out tariff exemptions to his political allies like candy.

There's not some high minded principal or strategy here. It's graft and spite. Trump even seems to be holding out the tariff threat as leverage to force the sale of TikTok.

Look you can agree with this stuff if you want but none of it is remotely aligned with libertarian principles. Even squishy ones.