[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I didn’t know libertarianism and conservatism were mutually exclusive. I think they have a broad overlap.

Ronald Reagan
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
— Ronald Reagan

[Terpfen]

I didn’t know libertarianism and conservatism were mutually exclusive. I think they have a broad overlap.

Broad overlap is not equivalence. Conservatives and libertarians agree with the Jefferson phrase that the government that governs best governs least. Differences emerge in the details, and there are enough that libertarians have chosen to form their own political party rather than work to get conservatives elected under the Republican Party. There is a fundamental similarity and dissimilarity between conservatism and libertarianism.

And Beck still needs to make up his mind which one he is.