He’s just another masshole.
Being from the NE US I’ve found that everyone who calls themselves freedom-loving, patriotic, and republican or libertarian always follows up with the “But....”
This is what Libertarian looks like in Assachusetts.
The French Revolutionary mantra: liberte’, egalite’, fraternite’; spawned Libertarianism. As such, it is a relatively modernist fad, in contrast to Principled Conservatism; which grew from the Greece of Antiquity from the likes of Aristotle, Pericles, Solon, Plato; among many others.
Does anyone seriously believe that a lack of freedom is the root cause of the very severe malaise that afflicts us as a nation?