This is a common trend among more ardent libertarians. I think it's due to a lot of libertarian predictions about the post-recession stimulus not coming true.

This is a common trend among more ardent libertarians. I think it's due to a lot of libertarian predictions about the post-recession stimulus not coming true. I know, I was one of those libertarians who though Obama was going to usher in a period of high inflation-driven growth. I was completely, absolutely, and astoundingly wrong. My response was to update my beliefs, but some people's response to their theories being proven incorrect by reality is to become rigidly authoritarian. "If reality doesn't conform to my worldview, I will make it conform!" Remember the Communists, like modern libertarians, originally had a stateless society as their goal. I think this is what happened with ZH and many other libertarian leaning sites.