>>2784432libertarianism isn't that bad, the problem is libertarians.
this is not the position i would've taken in 2017, but we're definitely in a direction of state-lead warmongering much worse than the worst that could be dreamed up by a global free market.
the problem with libertarians is that they mostly have personality flaws that've lead them to be Tax-cutting Trump type contrarians rather than committed believers in the rights of the individual. hence you see a shift towards "anarcho" capitalists who want the unspoken-state to throw taxmen out of helicopters, rather than libertarians who can say: go live on a commune if you want, but leave me out.
it and neoliberalism share a fundamental failure mode: they become very caught up on tax cuts and the immorality of taxation and forget all about regulation, even though overregulation, protection for businesses that should go under, etc, are in fact the most harmful interventions of the state. (tax is just a blip - it moves a cost curve a little bit, that's all. the market can handle that, but it can't handle if you just say "you can't open a coke bottling plant in this county because the government says only one guy's allowed to have one!") since it's obvious who loses from taxes (and not who gains), and since it's obvious who loses from deregulation (and not who gains - the answer is generally "more people than lose"), there's very little incentive to focus regulation and leave taxes alone, and lots and lots of incentive to rail against taxes at full volume with only quiet hypotheticals about regulation.