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[154] [155] [156] During the 2016 presidential election, many Tea Party members eventually abandoned more libertarian-leaning views in favor of Donald Trump and his right-wing populism. [157] Additionally, the Tea Party was considered to be a key force in Republicans reclaiming control of the House of Representatives in 2010. [158]
The LPO has sued secretaries of state from both major parties and won. The first case, Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Blackwell [7] was decided in LPO's favor on September 6, 2006 and laid the legal framework for another victory on July 17, 2008 in Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Brunner. [8]
The caucus has been characterized as "conservative with a libertarian emphasis" and was associated with the Tea Party movement. [3] In June 2014, the caucus supported Raúl Labrador's campaign for House Majority Leader. [10] [11] In February 2019, Politico reported that the House Liberty Caucus had eight members. [12]
It turns out many who rode the wave of principled libertarianism were neither.
Following the formation of the paleolibertarian faction, some American conservatives left the Republican Party to join the Libertarian Party. [14] After the September 11th attacks, some conservative libertarians supported the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. [15] Over the years, the number of anarcho-capitalists in the party dropped by ...
The 2012 Libertarian National Convention saw Johnson and Jim Gray being nominated as the 2012 presidential ticket for the Libertarian Party, resulting in the most successful result for a third-party presidential candidacy since 2000 and the best in the Libertarian Party's history by vote number. Johnson received 1% of the popular vote ...
The Libertarian Party of Ohio filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel contending that LaRose flouted the Hatch Act.
The Tea Party Patriots is officially neutral on social conservatism. [75] While social conservatism tends to emphasize community, faith and family as core values, the Tea Party Patriots identifies its core values as "Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, Free Markets". [76] Some branches are opposed to social conservatism ...