Reason sat down with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) at the recent International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. We talked about the 2016 election (“I don’t think there is a good outcome,” he says now that Rand Paul is out), his “gateway issue” into libertarianism (“I grew up in a rural area where everybody had guns. And then I went to college and realized people in college wanted to ban these things.”), and why he wants to write a “dating manual” for incoming representatives and senators:
Congressmen get led to a place they never want to go. And then they find themselves there and they find themselves trying to argue that that’s the right position.
[I’d like to] explain to them how they’re going to get lead in those directions, how they’re going to get whipped into voting for things they never intended to vote for. It’s almost sort of like a dating manual for adolescents: Like, “When this happens, and you feel uncomfortable, there’s a reason you feel uncomfortable….” Just you know, say this. You sort of need that dating manual when they get there so they don’t end up in places they don’t want to be.
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