#MeToo.
Although I often hate it when Trump has a "solution" to a bad government program (i.e. Obamacare) by replacing it with another government program, in many ways Trump has become the libertarian hero be being the ultimate victim of government spying. It may be that Trump winds up stopping govt spying more than anybody who ever claimed to be a libertarian.
Plus, the Libertarian Party really looked bad in 2016. I don't fault Johnson for not knowing about Aleppo (the libertarian position is not to know everything about all the world's business). But I do fault him for supporting a carbon tax. Let me repeat that. A CARBON TAX!!! Not even Trump was for that. The Libertarian Party needs to nominate somebody who's more libertarian than just pot legalization.
I don’t fault Johnson for not knowing about Aleppo
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That was such a gotcha.
I’m pretty good at trivia, and world geography is one of my better categories, and if I had not happened to have tuned into the news within the week or two before that question was asked, I probably would have guessed that Aleppo was in Turkey. Points for being close, but no cigar. I only remember that because it was overblown into such a stink at the time. It was more of a current event’s gotcha. Some US State governor isn’t going to know where Aleppo is any more than your average columnist is going to know where Cimarron Canyon is when asked out of the blue.
I only voted for Johnson because Hillary was the absolute most corrupt politician to run for President in my lifetime (even thought he media was suppressing all of it like they did with Obama’s sordid history) and I was really afraid that despite all Trump was saying he was really a NewYork liberal trying to trojan horse his way into office as a republican. I wont make that mistake in 2020, obviously. Johnson was my rebellion vote.