Gene Healy on Fear of Libertarians

Look
out: The libertarians are coming! The libertarians are coming!
Salon.com offers near-daily warnings about the libertarian
“threat.” “The anarchists have taken over,” Sen. Harry Reid,
D-Nev., wails. “This strain of libertarianism … is a very
dangerous thought,” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie warned last
summer in the wake of Edward Snowden’s exposure of National
Security Agency spying: “I want [these critics] to come to New
Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans” (Pro tip:
don’t take the George Washington Bridge). Never before, writes Gene
Healy, have so many been so intimidated by so few, with so little
political power.

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