Biggest reason not to drop is that would crash his control of the party and risk a counter coup by the right faction.
Most of the Hard Right faction left the party after a failed takeover in 2022. The Paleos, the Hoppeans, the Rothbardians, the Tea Partists, they all left for Trump. Chase barely held what was left together as a lot of the center faction wanted to back RFK.
Yeah this is what concerns me about him from an electoral perspective; it looks like he may pull from democrats moreso than republicans, thereby enabling the authoritarian candidate.
He does actually, first time the Libertarians have done that since Bush’s first term. Huge flip as prior the party was getting further and further right. It’s like 60-40 right now.
It’s also tanked them in the polls, 0.5 right now compared to 1.1 for Jill Stein and 0.8 for Cornell West.
(Also RFK swung hard to the right in the polling after Biden left so unless something happen with him I wouldn’t worry about the Libertarians. They’re moving in a direction most of this sub would agree with otherwise)
Biggest reason not to drop is that would crash his control of the party and risk a counter coup by the right faction. Most of the Hard Right faction left the party after a failed takeover in 2022. The Paleos, the Hoppeans, the Rothbardians, the Tea Partists, they all left for Trump. Chase barely held what was left together as a lot of the center faction wanted to back RFK.
Yeah this is what concerns me about him from an electoral perspective; it looks like he may pull from democrats moreso than republicans, thereby enabling the authoritarian candidate.
He does actually, first time the Libertarians have done that since Bush’s first term. Huge flip as prior the party was getting further and further right. It’s like 60-40 right now.
It’s also tanked them in the polls, 0.5 right now compared to 1.1 for Jill Stein and 0.8 for Cornell West.
(Also RFK swung hard to the right in the polling after Biden left so unless something happen with him I wouldn’t worry about the Libertarians. They’re moving in a direction most of this sub would agree with otherwise)