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Republicans who weren't happy with Trump co-opted the Libertarian movement and started identifying as Libertarian without actually changing their values or beliefs.
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asdfasdfsadfasfasdfLibertarianism had an active conservative population long before Trump was around. They're the "taxes are theft and government gets in the way of the free market" conservatives dialed to 11