| Few movements in the United States today harbor stranger political ideas than the self-proclaimed libertarians. The Rand Paul school of libertarianism is at least as far outside the mainstream on the right as, say, a rather doctrinaire old-school form of Marxism/Leninism is on the left. The difference is this: The mainstream media isn't telling us that we're in the middle of a "Marxist/Leninist moment." Leninist politicians aren't being touted as serious presidential contenders. And all the media chatter we're hearing about a "Libertarian moment" ignores the very harsh, extreme and sometimes downright ugly ideas that are being disseminated under that banner. |
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