This opinion piece is a political attack on Trump. It attempts to denigrate modern libertarianism based on an article published 40 years ago in the magazine Rea

This opinion piece is a political attack on Trump. It attempts to denigrate modern libertarianism based on an article published 40 years ago in the magazine Reason. The connection goes something like: 40 years ago an antisemitic article appeared in an issue of Reason, therefore Reason magazine is bad, therefore ideas espoused now in Reason magazine are bad, therefore readers of Reason are bad, therefore libertarians are bad, therefore Trump's libertarian leaning supporters are bad, therefore Trump is bad. It seems to me, that when you slice the country in half politically, there will be a large number of bad actors in each half. Dividing it up into a few more pieces by considering the green party, the libertarians, etc. won't completely eliminate sizable numbers of unpleasant people in each group. It probably makes more sense to look at two things, the current Libertarian Party platform [1] and compare that to the actual meaning of Fascism [2]. They aren't the same thing. [1] https://www.lp.org/platform https://www.lp.org/platform [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism