As it happens, Carl Franco’s recent article Rethinking Libertarianism resonates strongly with the recent chapter I published lately from the nearly completed ancap handbook.

The author quickly sketches his own set of basic libertarian principles, then declares that advanced state redistribution and regulation can be perfectly derived from these principles, and if a typical libertarian for some reason refuses to follow these conclusions, then something is clearly wrong with them.

Next, it is demonstrated that if libertarians threw away their silly ideals of freedom and instead adopted the far more popular ideals of order, purity, reverence for authority, care, and other wonderful things, they would, of course, manage to make this new reshaped doctrine more popular than the current loser sect of freedom-worshippers.

There is a lot of quite valid criticism in the article; I won’t recount it all. I can only recommend rereading the chapter Anarchist Politics: On the Libertarian Party from Friedman’s The Machinery of Freedom. I see no point in adding anything more to the grandfather’s words; he showed the direction of the evolution of libertarian politicians’ views and how to relate to it long ago.