Where did Trump get racialized rhetoric? From libertarians
By The Washington Post
on September 04, 2016 at 9:54 AM
... Clinton -- and many conservative intellectuals who oppose Trump -- say the conspiratorial, winking-at-racists campaign he has been running represents a novel departure from Republican politics.
That's not quite true, however. Trump's style and positions -- endorsing and consorting with 9/11 truthers, promoting online racists, using fake statistics -- draw on a now-obscure political strategy called "paleolibertarianism," which was once quite popular among some Republicans, especially former presidential candidate Ron Paul ...
... there's no question that the paranoid and semi-racialist mien frequently favored by Trump originates in the fevered swamps where the elder Paul dwelled for decades ... Trump and Paul speak the same language ...
The figure whose ideas unify Pauline libertarians and today's Trumpists is the late Murray Rothbard, an economist who co-founded the Cato Institute and is widely regarded as the creator of libertarianism. Nowadays, many libertarians like to portray their ideology as one that somehow transcends the left-right divide, but to Rothbard, this was nonsense. Libertarianism, he argued, was nothing more than a restatement of the beliefs of the "Old Right" ...
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