How MAGA Plans to Steal the Libertarian Party Bus - Gracearchy with Jim Babka 171

What happens when people who reject Libertarian Party principles decide they want its ballot access? Is the meaning of libertarianism itself at stake? A conspiracy of major influencers and politicians is organizing a party takeover. They disagree with the platform, want current members chased off, and plan to rename, rebrand, and redirect the LP toward “class struggle” politics. Jim names names, plays the clips, and traces the damage from the last takeover. He also explains why both major parties keep attacking libertarians, revisits the campaigns of Chase Oliver and Gary Johnson - even debunks the Aleppo myth. Two urgent questions remain: Will this devastate the party, and how can it be stopped? SHOW NOTES 162 Does Tucker Carlson Understand the Rigged Two Party System? - https://youtu.be/qOtEZ1cgkdg 161: Dave Smith Wishes He Wasn't A Libertarian - https://youtu.be/O_aDp7LqXCQ 129: Libertarian Purity Tests Do NOT Exist - https://youtu.be/0lD3JdZGCS8 The book Perry Willis and I published this year, "The Plan for a Libertarian America..." is on loan to the Libertarian Party. Here's how you get it: https://lp.org/parity-project-recruitment-portal/ Pathways to Libertarianism: https://www.theadvocates.org/downloads/pathways-to-libertarianism-2021.pdf CHAPTERS 0:00 It's real 0:34 Stealing the bus 2:32 Weekend at Tucker's 4:56 The dropout scenario 8:18 Good guy scenario 9:29 Take over scenario 11:05 Moving the party to class struggle 14:58 Understand and misunderstand Libertarians 19:54 The plot is afoot 21:03 Are the best libertarian impulses right wing? 24:00 Tea leaves abound 25:34 Second Band of the conspiracy, Podcastistan 27:41 What is their real motive? 29:25 Irrelevant? Democrats attack 2016 36:23 Irrelevant? GOP sabotage 2024 41:08 The hollowing out 46:22 The third-to-last chair? 51:54 What is a libertarian? 54:12 Pathways to Libertarianism 55:48 Losing the most graceful party CREDITS Bill Protzmann is your moderator. This episode is sponsored by Zero Aggression Project. https://zeroaggressionproject.org/ Thank you to Randy Garbin for our amazing episode thumbnails: http://randygarbin.com/ We are grateful to Sergio at https://www.youtube.com/@KeysofMoonMusic for our intro theme. ► https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10500501 or you can purchase his music on BandCamp: ► https://keysofmoon.bandcamp.com/ ► If you have any questions please feel free to write to Sergio at: serjo.de.lua.music@gmail.com Be grace-full to each other.