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Or, more broadly, the paradox of "libertarians" in general:
On the one hand, they can turn a free trade agreement into "oligarchy!", a tax-funded health care system into an "Orwellian superstate!", and generally regard any democratic state that actually exists today with extreme paranoia.
On the other hand, they can speak of their candidate-of-the-hour in adulatory, messianic terms that would have embarrassed a paid flatterer at the court of Versailles.
