“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.
The Bell Breakup was 40 years ago and all those Baby Bells have become 3 huge companies Verizon, AT&T and Lumen Technologies.