Friday, July 16, 2010

Brink Lindsey Lurches to the Right

…or at least he now calls for libertarians to ally with moderates instead of, as he desired two years ago, liberals.  What hasn’t changed is that he still hates those rotten no-good conservatives, even the Tea Party ones.  I wonder if, in the end, he will have any friends at all.

Jonah Goldberg and Matt Kibbe annihilate him in the Reason colloquium linked above. You can also find two former editors in chief of the print version of Reason — and one ex-boss of mine from ABC — among the guests on this weekend’s episode of Freedom Watch, so by all means watch on Saturday or Sunday, on Fox Business Network.

As for Lindsey and his “liberaltarian” mission: it seems to me the liberaltarians, some of whom openly voted for Obama, basically zigged when the nation zagged, ideologically speaking.  But they are allowed to learn and grow, just like the rest of us.  Anyone who still cannot see libertarian potential in the Tea Party movement but can see it in the Democratic Party, though, is about as ideologically blind, albeit in a less dangerous way, as the unrepentant Stalinists of the 1950s.

4 comments:

Noah Siegel said...

“Anyone who still cannot see libertarian potential in the Tea Party movement but can see it in the Democratic Party, though, is about as ideologically blind, albeit in a less dangerous way, as the unrepentant Stalinists of the 1950s.”

What about those of us see potential in neither?

Todd Seavey said...

You may well be right. We’ll see.

While it crosses my mind: on a related note, if the Libertarian Party can’t make huge gains in the year of the Tea Party, they really may need to give up (though I concede the Tea Party has become mainly a vehicle for attempting to take over the GOP, so the LP could always argue that it’s draining LP votes rather than pushing the populace in the LP’s direction — but still, for good or ill, you’d think the LP could capitalize on this movement more).

Gerard said...

Speaking of Freedom Watch, am I the only one who finds Andrew Napalitano visually mesmerizing?

Todd Seavey said...

I certainly hope not.