On New Years, Margaret Roberts at VDare noticed that Rand Paul and the broader Washington D.C. libertarian community has embraced (physically, morally, politically) black militants and their allies in the radical left.

The fringes are easy to get riled up. But the core is the only demographic that really has much skin in the game with respect to property rights. The fringes have no property to worry themselves over.

For those of you who don’t know, ‘the Orange Line’ refers to libertarians affiliated or employed by the Cato Institute, including the editorial staff of Reason Magazine. It’s also sometimes referred to as the ‘Kochtopus’ because of its financial connections to our friends at Koch Enterprises.

From a democratic-politics perspective, it’s even dumber for Rand Paul to be moved by the influence of left-libertarians, because those people will oppose him for other reasons, largely related to foreign policy but also economics, as soon as it is convenient for them to do so.

Indeed, the left-wing Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog accused Rand Paul of being an ‘asshole and moral pervert’ last year, among other things.

Libertarians, especially the academics, have positioned themselves against their natural base, aligning instead with the donor class and radical academics. Because politics is ultimately mock-war, alignment on the battlefield matters more than whatever the generals are talking about to justify that alignment. Who is shooting at whom is more relevant than what motivates all the shooting.

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