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@elfprince13@mumak.app The issue is not even what CATO or Reason write about. A bit part of the issue is that the average person who calls themselves a libertarian is not the Reason writers but rather their comment section or the Misses Caucus. If it were just a vocal minority it would show in the libertarian candidates who run for office and have success but instead for years now its the crazies. The debate where a candidate got booed for suggesting Drivers licenses maybe aren't the worst thing became a meme for a reason. For every Justin Amash there are 3 Matt Gaetz. As much as Reason and CATO want to be the face of the Libertarians they've lost that battle a long time ago. All they do is give cover for people who care more about their Tax bill than those around them cover for voting for Republicans who couldn't care less about actual libertarian values. Yes CATO is Left of the mainstream Dems on some issues but on those same issues the Republicans are even worse and yet most people who claim to be libertarians will still vote for those same Republicans. I give Reason credit for mostly not pandering to their readership by turning to the worst like so many right wing publications have with the rise of Trump but that doesn't change the fact that the majority of Americans hear the term libertarian they think Misses Caucus.