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Hitler Is Back in Style

JL;DR SUMMARY The article explores the troubling trend of the liberty movement's ideological shift towards antisemitism and alt-right extremism, epitomized by a resurgence of pro-Hitler sentiments and conspiracy theories within some libertarian circles. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HitlerConspiracy TheoriesAlt RightPolitical ExtremismLibertarianismJewish ControlMoral DecayLiberty MovementRon Paul

Places mentioned

Manhattan, New York, United States
"That same year, in Manhattan, I sat across from a fellow Ron Paul fan who leaned in and said, You know Hitler wasnt as bad as they say."
New Hampshire, United States
"heading into New Hampshire, and causing the unhappy attrition of campaign leaders."
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
"He was sitting across from me. Clean-cut. Friendly. Just asking questions, as they say. And he wasnt alone. This wasnt a fringe anymore. It was metastasizing. A man once associated with the Free State Project and libertarian forums became the Crying Nazi, arrested and weeping after Charlottesville, Virginia."
Iowa, United States
"Just after the 2008 Iowa caucuses, the infamous newsletter controversy surfaced, becoming a significant liability"
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
"In 2008, at the Rally for the Republic in MinneapolisRon Pauls answer to the GOP conventionnone other than Tucker Carlson stormed out after Jesse Ventura claimed 9/11 was an inside job."
Argentina
"despise Javier Milei, the anarcho-capitalist president of Argentina, not entirely for his policies, but because he defends the West"
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Moreover, Argentine libertarians of which I am very fond and in correspondence with have memories of the Islamist Buenos Aires bombings in 1992 and 1994."
Iran
"While one side embodies Enlightenment values and the other embodies anti-Enlightenment ideology is choosing a false neutrality. Liberty is not a neutral stance between civilization and barbarism; it is the victory of one over the other. The future belongs to those who still believe in civilization and who will defend her when it is no longer fashionable to do so."
Israel
"Walter Block had been a respected senior fellow at the Mises Institute and a frequent contributor to its journals, grounded in Austrian economics and libertarian theory. Over time, however, his writings on Israel began to diverge from the institutes developing stance on foreign policy."

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