Brian Doherty on David Brat, Eric Cantor, Libertarians, and Republicans

Yesterday’s primary defeat of crony capitalist
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by an unknown economics
professor, David Brat, with a professed admiration for free
markets, a yen for Ayn Rand, and a campaign manager who identifies
himself as an “Austrian Economics geek,” raises anew a constant
dilemma. As Senior Editor Brian Doherty explains, that dilemma is
this: How libertarian can a libertarian be in electoral politics,
and is the Republican Party where a “serious” libertarian must go
if he wants to be involved in such politics?

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