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Politico: Libertarianism goes mainstream
• Daily Paul.comStereotyped for decades as pro-pot, pro-porn and pro-pacifism, libertarians are becoming mainstream.
Fair or not, Ron Paul epitomized to a swath of voters the caricature of a goofy grandpa who invests in gold, stockpiles guns, sees black helicopters whirling overhead and quotes Friedrich Hayek.
His ride into the sunset — combined with an evolving electorates’s move away from hot-button social issues — gives a new libertarian guard the opportunity to rebrand their governing philosophy as more reasonable, serious and compatible with the Republican Party.