Slide from my government class where Bernie Sanders is more left wing than China, Pinochet is extreme right wing authoritarian and Milton Friedman is a sweet right wing libertarian despite advising and defending Pinochet. Obama is more authoritarian and right wing than Washington as well.
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I like how far this thing has to stretch to make libertarians (the bottom right quandrant) into something that actually exists instead of bow-tie nerds fantasizing about utopia. Over on the right you’ve got Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, and Murray Rothbard. A bunch of electoral failures, a lady whose books are drivel, and a contrarian academic who said child slavery should exist. Ok cool.
And they’re equated on this chart with Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Nelson Mandela, people who actually did things and governed countries. Libertarians are such a joke. Their only success is Javier Milei in Argentina and he instantly because a standard right-winger upon taking office, whoops.
