[formerly_proven]

> Side rant: where are all the "don't tread on me" gun nuts that have arsenals rivaling what would be a special forces unit in smaller countries?

They won the election?

[Retric]

Gun nut and republicans have overlap but aren’t the same group.

Quite a few are really into Libertarian values and hate Republican stances on a wide range of issues.

[mschuster91]

> Quite a few are really into Libertarian values and hate Republican stances on a wide range of issues.

Mostly abortion and to a lesser extent the "war on drugs". The rest is seeing especially Musk's blatant self-dealings [1] and teardown of "big gubmint" as something laudable.

"So This is How Liberty Dies, With Thunderous Applause"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43127819

[Retric]

There’s far more fundamental disagreement between the parties than that.

Libertarians strongly oppose government intervention in the economy like farm subsidies or specific tax cuts for specific industries. The Reputation party says it believes in free markets, but it doesn’t act that way.

The gap between Republican stated goals and actual policies is really stark. I think it mostly works because so few people dig into the details, but some people get really disillusioned.

[orblivion]

Yeah, it's not "Don't tread on the executive branch". Quite the opposite.