In an interview on Wednesday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asked Gary Johnson to name “one foreign leader that you respect and look up to.” The Libertarian Party nominee for president came up blank. “I guess I’m having an Aleppo moment,” he said, referring to an interview blunder earlier this month when he revealed his ignorance of the war-torn Syrian city.

Perhaps this might not hurt Johnson with the demographic that he is polling best with right now: millennials. After all, the Libertarian Party is against foreign intervention of any kind, and many young people today are quite skeptical of our military entanglements. Moreover, there are other issues—abortion rights, LGBT rights, criminal justice reform—where the interests of millennials and those of the Libertarian Party seem to align.

Yet on a host of others—some very serious issues which millennials hold dear—Johnson is utterly out of step with this demographic. He doesn’t think the government should do a lick about climate change. He supports TPP, Citizens United, and unapologetically opposes all forms of gun control. Obamacare? Johnson says only the free market should be involved in health insurance. On perhaps the biggest issue among younger Sanders supporters—free college tuition—Gary Johnson will offer them nothing. That’s Libertarianism for you.

But if so many of Johnson’s positions are anathema to millennials—polls confirm that millennials want way more government involvement on these issues, not less—why does he still poll so well with them? Is it simply that the appeal of voting against the two parties in this anti-establishment year—a “pox on both your houses” approach—is so strong with this age group? With fewer of them registering as Democrats or Republicans—a plurality now proclaim themselves independents—this might ring true. Or could it be, as some suggest, that it all just comes down to legalizing weed, something Johnson has repeatedly called for?

That any voter would prioritize legal marijuana as their number-one issue, particularly in the year of Donald Trump, seems absurd. But if we dismiss this analysis as cynical, we are still left wondering if the liberal millennials who support Johnson are even aware of the Libertarian Party platform positions. And if they are aware, and see their vote as a way of protesting against the status quo, then one has to wonder if they understand the consequences of voting for someone whom they don’t agree with on the issues just to send a “message.”