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Posted on 05/09/2025 8:46:14 AM PDT by Angelino97
The Libertarian Party released a detailed review this week of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office since winning a second term, grading his administration’s early actions across a range of policy areas. The party gave the administration an overall grade of a C-minus.
The party shared its review on Tuesday, describing the administration as a “mixed bag for liberty,” and giving it a blend of praise and criticism. It looked at ten categories, along with providing a “Libertarian View” to go along with each. As part of its focus, the review assessed whether the size and scope of government had grown or shrunk since the beginning of Trump’s second term, and whether Americans had gained or lost freedoms.
The review credited the administration with issuing mass pardons, including for January 6 protesters and Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, and praised proposed cuts to federal agencies and a general shift away from military intervention in Ukraine. However, it sharply denounced what it sees as a failure to rein in defense spending, including continued military support to Israel, and a return of protectionist trade policies. It also called out the expansion of executive authority through more than 140 executive orders, referring to it as an “executive order overload.”
“Shrinking government is a win,” the party wrote. “But relying on executive orders instead of legislative change centralizes power, even when the policy is right. Real decentralization requires structural change, not just a reshuffling of bureaucracies.”
Other concerns included proposed mass deportations, a $1 trillion defense budget, and signs of continued federal overreach in areas such as education and public health. The party’s review expressed alarm at the administration’s praise of El Salvador’s “mega-prison strategy” and called the current immigration system a “byzantine, quota-ridden bureaucracy that incentivizes illegal entry.” While the review noted some positive movement on school choice and decentralization, it argued that much of Trump’s governing approach has relied too heavily on executive power.
In issuing its final grade, the party acknowledged signs of “positive disruption,” but still cautioned libertarians to remain vigilant.
“While there are signs of positive disruption—some red tape is being slashed, some political prisoners pardoned, some war spending paused—the deeper disease of centralization, fiscal irresponsibility, and state power remains unaddressed,” it further wrote. “Libertarians should praise the steps toward decentralization, but stay vigilant as power continues to shift, often just from one federal hand to another.”
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The Libertarian Party is living in a fantasyland where Congress would actually make meaningful spending cuts. Trump hopefully is creating momentum to get Congress to act.
As much as anything the Loserterians have become a tool for the rats. Many of their candidates are financed by the Dems.
They can fight it out for their 3%.
Liberaltarians get an F, or at most a D-, for their “conservative” performance.
This is the perfect example as to why the Libertarian Party will remain insignificant, and will never get their opportunity to lead the nation.
Thus, they are grading Trump on something that does not fall under the Constitutionally delegated powers of the president. The president is unable to do anything legislatively, unless Congress provides him with legislation. Even then he can only either accepted it to become law, or reject is as presented.
The EOs should be looked at as Trump's suggestions to the legislature, but the limited intelligence of Libertarians fails to allow them to see exact what EOs are. They are methods to enact certain legislation for a temporary periods, but more importantly it is a signal to the legislators. Sadly, many legislators are as ignorant as the electorate that sends them to Congress.
Bing wouldn’t answer my question about how many Americans are libertarian party members. Google answered quickly and on point:
Membership (2024) 737,972
So, pitifully small.
Even at its best, libertarianism has flaws. But what passes for libertarianism these days is far worse.
Great point, and well said.
I have met Marxist Marxist, Gramschi Marxists, Fabian Socialists, Bosheviks, Mensheviks, National Socialists and Fascisti, but I have never met a Libertarian. They must be good at hiding.
So, do they count? 🤣
In a nutshell.
(Of course, that "limited intelligence" may be intentionally engaged to present a particular position.)
What? All 3 people in the party voted 2 B’s and a D-?
Tariffs and borders piss them off. That’s why they smoke pot.
i thought the The Libertarian Party had recently imploded into a smoldering heap of internal back-biting, loss of membership, and loss of donations ...
““Shrinking government is a win,” the party wrote. “But relying on executive orders instead of legislative change centralizes power, even when the policy is right.”
ah ... yet another “principles are more important than results” crowd, just like RINOs ...
Actually, I think a C- from libertarians is not bad considering a lot of them appear to be a little kooky.
Most libertarians I know personally voted for obama and biden. I tell them, “ I thought libertarians were for less government and more freedoms. I guess you’re in the pot, prostitution, pedophilia wing of the libertarian party.”
This is the same group that supported unlimited immigration.
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