Sublime

are, as NPR put it, “running for Congress—and running against compromise.”

One of the political crises we will see coming to a peak in the 2020s will be a revolt against the primary system, which empowers minority ideologies and demands large amounts of effort to permit participation.

This disproportionate power that proportional representation gives the third-largest party is an embarrassing feature of a system whose whole raison d’être, and supposed moral justification, is to allocate political influence proportionately.

People with libertarian ideals have generally supported the Republican Party since the 1930s because libertarians and Republicans have a common enemy: the liberal welfare society that they believe is destroying America’s liberty (for libertarians) and moral fiber (for social conservatives).