<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Nov 8, 2018, at 10:00 AM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:19 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> I too am saddened by libertarians who either aren’t critical of Trump or actually support him — especially in areas like immigration and trade. But in my view those folks have simply abandoned libertarianism or watered it down so much that it amounts to the same thing.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I am <b>very</b> glad to hear you say that, I thought I was the only one.</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then you haven’t been paying attention. Not only have I always been against Trump (and Clinton and anyone else running for President*), I’m by no means alone. There are many vocal libertarian anti-Trump folks out there.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, the big problem is many anti-libertarians call themselves libertarians, so those of us against Trump are overlooked by basically statists in libertarian drag. A good litmus test these days is asking any self-identified libertarian if they’re for open borders. If they’re not, then they’re not a libertarian. (Like with the War on Terror, Trump’s rise to power has shown me who the fake libertarians are.)</div><br><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* I’ve openly call for abolishing the office.</span></p></div></div></div></body></html>