Trump’s Reception at the Libertarian Convention

Like many people, I dislike being categorized, but if forced, when asked where I stood in terms of political ideology I would check off the box that said, “leans libertarian.”

In other words, I’m more or less libertarian but don’t hold me to it. Nevertheless, I do believe in general terms that the government is best that governs least.

But the night of May 25, while watching former President Donald Trump address the Libertarian Convention on television, I wanted to, in sixties parlance, burn my libertarian card.

Who were these people? The crowd was so juvenile and disrespectful of President Trump, and one would assume just about anybody else, jeering him throughout—who would want to have anything to do with them? (I had heard entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was treated the same way at the convention, but with a smaller audience.)

This was just two nights after President Trump’s speech in the Bronx where he was received considerably more warmly by a vastly bigger, mixed-race, and mostly working-class crowd. The comparison was, to say the least, noteworthy.

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