“I know of no libertarian who wants no government. A true libertarian believes that government has a function, a small one, but that function it should perform well and powerfully, and do nothing else.”
ok in theory. But they never really tell you how they want to do it. They have plenty of ideas on what they oppose and repeal but they didn’t tell Reagan how to win the Cold War or Rudy how to reduce crime in NYC or Bush how to keep us safe after 9/11.
See, there you go again. You’ve set up the straw dog and knocked it down again. You have no idea what constitutes libertarianism and what constitutes conservatism, at least it isn’t evident in what you write.
You say “they this, and they that” and then you criticize what you imagine “they” do or say.