When Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane was creating the libertarian movement in the 1970s, he came across a lot of self-proclaimed conservatives. What’s notable about this is that in getting to know some of them, Crane sensed they weren’t as they described themselves.
While they once again identified as conservatives based on their belief in limited government, Crane found that quite unlike conservatives they were skeptical about foreign military interventionism frequently espoused by traditional conservatives, plus they felt government had no say in personal issues of the bedroom variety. Crane sensed they were libertarians but didn’t know it.
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