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Sold Our Souls Cheap

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Written by: Bill Sihr

Author's Note: The bulk of this editorial was drafted before January 27th, 2025, when Angela McArdle resigned her position as Chair of the Libertarian Party. Her statement on X was, “'I’m taking on a new opportunity soon that will make it impossible for me to stay on as Chair, so I am resigning.”[1] Note that this was after both the Harlos lawsuit and the LNC investigation occurred (sources below). Whether her stated reasoning is genuine or a deflection conjecture and moot. Regardless it does not change that her agenda and her allies continue to lead the Party towards disaster.[2] Therefore, it has been decided to leave the draft intact.

As part of her wider project to increase the number of so-called liberty-minded candidates (regardless of their Party affiliation), Party Chair Angela McArdle brought then former President Trump to the 2024 National Convention (where he was rightfully booed off stage). Additionally she has actively diminished the National Party’s support for our duly-elected Presidential candidate, Chase Oliver, tied us to a morally (and legally) dubious funds sharing scheme with Robert Kennedy JR., and ended the year by pressuring the various State Party affiliates into formally supporting a collection of nominee suggestions for Trump’s incoming cabinet, which tacitly gave him the support he so coveted. These measures have been highly controversial, questionably motivated and now, we can say without any doubt, they were a failure.[3] We have diminished in terms of credibility, financial stability and, most importantly, our membership size. However, this is not just an instance of one bad apple, but a complete reinterpretation of “libertarian” into “minor-league Republicans”. From the canopy to the root we are rotting away. Unless we do a complete about face from our current direction, we will not survive.

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