Gary Johnson for liberty
Liberty is under attack, mainly from the party that claims to defend it
BACK on the campaign trail, Gary Johnson cuts a slightly disconsolate figure. Appearing in a sports bar in the town of Gallup, New Mexico, the former Republican governor, serial presidential hopeful and now Libertarian Party candidate for the Senate, spoke unenergetically about what he would do there. He would fight the deficit, be bipartisan, facilitate whistle-blowing on government waste, he said, with lengthening pauses between each item. After ten minutes, a puzzled look crossed his face and Mr Johnson fell silent. An aide suggested that the small crowd should mingle with him instead.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Gary Johnson for liberty”
United States September 15th 2018
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