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TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 6 months agoIt’s weirder than that. The website owner is sharing his paraphrasing of a book by Murray Rothbard. He is the man who coined anarcho-capitalism, protege of von Mises, a Jewish immigrant who organized a group st Columbia to show support for Strom Thurman, mocked by The National Review for his old world isolationist beliefs, called Hayek a liberal, and inspiration to Pat Buchannon, David Duke, and Ron Paul. This Baffler article from Jon Ganz does a great job of breaking down who he was and his relevance to the current Trump moment. He was a self-declared paleo-libertarian.