Unfortunately we have both democrats and republicans desperately trying to drive a wedge between conservatives and libertarians.
That’s because the very terms Libertarian and Conservative have become polarized. I’m a two-time loser in that I’m a Conservative with strong libertarian (small “L”) leanings.
I really like the term “Classical Liberal.”. The Founding Fathers were “Classical Liberals.”. When Reagan said that he didn’t leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left him he was referring to it abandoning Classical Liberalism.
There are such knee jerk reactions to both “Conservative” and “Libertarian” today that return to use of the term could be a gateway to the uniting around common beliefs and purposes that BOTH sides need in order to effectively counter Progressivism.
Unfortunately we have libertarians trying to convince conservatives to move left and become more liberal, and it is being done by people called “libertarian”, not conservative, and for a reason.