Saturday, January 30, 2021

Were the Capitol Rioters Really Libertarians?

In the accounts about the Trump supporters who attacked the US Capitol, the media have sometimes alluded to supposed “libertarian” connections. The Wall St. Journal calls Parler, the social-media network which, it says, “served as a hub for people who organized, participated in or celebrated the storming of the Capitol” a “libertarian-leaning social-media site.” In the same story it reported that one of the participants (Rosanne Boyland) “joined at least two libertarian-leaning Facebook...

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