This man needs to run for President.
We need to break up big tech. Rand isn’t helping here. Pure libertarian theory is very practical on the blackboard, not so much in real life.
Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican and he knew that big could be bad when it stifled competition and crushed small business.
“This man needs to run for President.”
He did and he went over like a water-filled balloon. Trump’s victory showed that average Republican voters aren’t Koch Brothers libertarians. They want Social Security protected. They want hedge fund billionaires to pay taxes. They want restrictions on immigration. They want US jobs protected from cheap foreign labor and destructive outsourcing of factories overseas. And they think that government has a role in preventing oppressive monopolistic business mergers. Most GOP voters favor breaking up big tech, for example.
Rand’s libertarianism gets applause at DC think tanks, but it did’t win voters in the 2016 primaries.
He did. He didn’t win.