Libertarians’ reality problem: How an estrangement from history yields abject failure - Salon.com

Libertarians’ reality problem: How an estrangement from history yields abject failure - Salon.com: 



It has long been customary to divide the Republican Party into three “camps”: big business or “Wall Street” Republicans, the religious right and neoconservatives or “national security” Republicans. The third group, it must be admitted, somewhat unsteadily combines neoconservatives proper (such as William Kristol) with old-fashioned defense hawks (such as Donald Rumsfeld), but perhaps this is the Republican “big tent” we keep hearing about. 



In any case, this neat three-part logic was roiled by two events in 2008: the “Great Recession” and the election of Barack Obama as president.