Never a Dem or a Pub, I was a registered Libertarian for a handful of years. But I eventually left because they were just as locked into their ideology as every other political party. An independent always, in both thought and deed.
Inside of every republican is a Libertarian. The libertarian problem is the minimum 5-6 lost senate seats that are blue because the Libertarians ran vanity candidates over the last few decades. I’m thinking of the northwest. They won’t drop out for THEIR greater. good. Democrats don’t have that problem.