Trump Addresses Libertarian Convention
Posted: Mon May 27, 2024 8:01 am
Kudos to Trump for having the guts to address the Libertarian Convention, brave all the boos, and maintain his composure and not get derailed from his speech. In the speech, he made only one mild jab at the crowd, that they don't want to win elections and prefer to be permanent losers getting no more than 3% of the vote even after being a national party for 50 years they have never elected a single candidate to national office. That was a mild jab, and it wasn't even an insult, it was just a fact.
In contrast to his 2016 and 2020 campaigns where he was often distracted by critics and tended to lash out, the 2024 Trump campaign is focused entirely on issues, gone are the petty feuds with the media or other candidates. This is a mature and focused Trump.
The Biden campaign tried to mock Trump on Twitter/X for getting booed by the Libertarians, but the chairman of the Libertarian party would have none of it, saying in response "At least Trump had the courage to show up, we invited you but you were too scared to attend". Boom!
Here is the problem with the Libertarian Party:
You hear a Libertarian speech and for 80% of it you think "I may not agree with all of this, but it sounds reasonable, or at least rationally defensible" and then he says something like "We need to stop the Jews and their evil conspiracy to mind control us with laser beams" and the response of nearly everyone is "we need to keep these crazies far away from the levers of power", the 20% of the speech that is batcrap crazy negates all the goodwill they built up leading up to it.
Libertarians have a serious "Star Trek Convention Problem" by which I mean, people like Star Trek but the crazies who take it way too seriously tend to alienate mainstream audiences, so while most people have probably seen at least one Star Trek movie or TV episode that they thought was pretty good, they tend to shy away from becoming fans of the franchise because of its image as a hobby of crazy people. Thus Star Trek remains a niche, cult phenomenon even though it has been around for nearly 60 years.
In contrast to his 2016 and 2020 campaigns where he was often distracted by critics and tended to lash out, the 2024 Trump campaign is focused entirely on issues, gone are the petty feuds with the media or other candidates. This is a mature and focused Trump.
The Biden campaign tried to mock Trump on Twitter/X for getting booed by the Libertarians, but the chairman of the Libertarian party would have none of it, saying in response "At least Trump had the courage to show up, we invited you but you were too scared to attend". Boom!
Here is the problem with the Libertarian Party:
You hear a Libertarian speech and for 80% of it you think "I may not agree with all of this, but it sounds reasonable, or at least rationally defensible" and then he says something like "We need to stop the Jews and their evil conspiracy to mind control us with laser beams" and the response of nearly everyone is "we need to keep these crazies far away from the levers of power", the 20% of the speech that is batcrap crazy negates all the goodwill they built up leading up to it.
Libertarians have a serious "Star Trek Convention Problem" by which I mean, people like Star Trek but the crazies who take it way too seriously tend to alienate mainstream audiences, so while most people have probably seen at least one Star Trek movie or TV episode that they thought was pretty good, they tend to shy away from becoming fans of the franchise because of its image as a hobby of crazy people. Thus Star Trek remains a niche, cult phenomenon even though it has been around for nearly 60 years.
