“The irony, of course, is that the “libertarian” think tanks delivering these defenses are no longer libertarian in any meaningful sense. Libertarianism once meant freeing markets and empowering individuals. Today, these institutions function as aristocratic libertarianism: freedom for capital, discipline for labor, abundance for the donor class, austerity for everyone else. This purpose is served regardless of the researcher’s political history (Winship was a Democratic strategist) because of the institutional necessity of defending the financial status quo that funds the think tank. The left and the right elite have come together to defend themselves against the deplorables whose dubious moral character is the source of their failings.”
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