People didn’t view Nixon as conservative, or socially conservative.
Contrary to your lengthy ramblings, conservatives don’t “fear freedom”, they gave us freedom and fight to preserve it today.
Libertarianism is a way to promote liberalism within the GOP and join with the GOPe and the openly left, in cutting off conservatism and God, and traditional America, and killing it, once and for all.
Were you around in 1968? Many did.
conservatives don’t “fear freedom”, they gave us freedom and fight to preserve it today
Yes but Reagan and his supporters, unlike you apparently, didn't object to putting freedom first.
Do you think that having a libertarian third party candidate on the ballot takes more votes away from Democrats, or from Republicans??