Not surprising. Libertarian and Republican wingnuts subscribe to a utopian freedom gospel -- essentially, extended infancy -- and not to political freedom based on equality in democracy (ugh!). This is revealed in the fact that they must use mere political declarations and straight-out affirmations of opinion as fact, never arguing from solid first principles, a concept unknown to them or their dimwit heroine, Ayn Rand. Indeed, they are clueless enough to think the trifling differences among human groups or across individuals have anything to do with political rights under democracy. In a word, pathetic.
Today's GOP believe rich white males (and wannabes) should be entirely free to do anything and everything they could possible dream up, without limit and regardless of consequence, solely to please their insatiable appetites, while absolutely no one else can or should act to defend themselves from the white man's onslaught. This is what, at core, "conservative" males voting in US elections believe, together with the myth that hordes of brown people are coming to take their fairly stolen spoils all away. Intellectually dim, ethically vacant, and smacking of profound, tongue-lolling panic.
It's easy for demagogues to put the run on scaredy cats, as 20thc history would have taught them, had they the skills and fortitude to read. More than one somebody didn't get the spanking they sorely needed when a child.
