[tptacek]

Turley is best known among "liberals" for having supported the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, suing Barack Obama, opposing the ACA, supporting President Trump's extralegal redirection of funds to his border wall project, and opposing Trump's impeachment. I don't think he's a pretty standard Hacker News liberal.

I'm not sure I remember any time during my adult life where the Democratic party had a libertarian wing. I'm curious what you think are examples of libertarian Democrats. People like Feingold and Wyden get cited here because they're ardent about conventionally-construed civil liberties, but that's just a small part of what a libertarian is.

[rayiner]

He also called for Bush to be prosecuted for “war crimes,” opposes the death penalty, etc. And lots of Hacker News liberals opposed Obama for drone strikes, surveillance, etc.

I recall a pretty strong civil libertarian wing among democrats during the Bush era. I’d say Howard Dean at least had some libertarian tendencies, such as supporting gun rights.

[tptacek]

Lots of Democrats support gun rights. The Illinois death penalty was eliminated by a Republican governor. That doesn't make them Libertarians. No Democrat supports eliminating the Department of Education, for instance.