This Onion story from 2001 proved to be highly prophetic:
WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.”
The political situation in the US, and indeed much of the world, has deteriorated steadily since the beginning of the century. And just when you think things can’t get any worse, they do.
This new story in Vox is the best piece of political analysis that I’ve read in years. The bottom line is that a group who believe in “authoritarianism” is on the rise in the US. I won’t go into all the details, but suffice it to say that if you are a libertarian like me, you should be very worried. They are essentially the exact opposite of libertarianism. If they take over the GOP, then the situation for libertarians will be the bleakest since at least the Nixon era. The silver lining (and it’s a very slim one) is that it might give a boost to the Libertarian Party.
