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"Libertarian" is a sliding scale from basically anarcho-capitalism to traditional Republicanism.

While it has been humorous to see these faux-libertarians say in one breath they want small government, but in the very next breath demand to be saved, tankies and other far-left extremes have used this as an opportunity to lump all libertarians into the same boat.

There's no such thing as a "true" libertarian as most libertarians believe in small government, but what that government can do, is generally up to interpretation in all but the most extreme cases. A major central belief the non-aggression principle. However social issues tend to be more wishy-washy.

Prior to the balkanization of America Libertarian-lite could probably be approximated by a classical liberal.