re: #14 Randall Gross

“Embarrassed” is the best Gillespie can come up with. reason.com

Denial, deflection, ad hominem, deflection, and denial. Mostly denial. And some bullshit.

As the conservative right and progressive left feel threatened by libertarianism, such attacks will multiply in number and intensify in venom. The main purpose is not to actually engage libertarian ideas—including once pie-in-the-sky beliefs that governments should be financially sustainable, gay people should be allowed to marry one another, and that more immigration is better than less immigration—but precisely to avoid discussing their merits.

Bullshit. Saying their ideas have no merit is not avoiding the discussion of their lack of merit.

And the progressive position is not ‘more immigration’ it is ‘reform immigration to give more people a shot at citizenship’, which is antithetical to the libertarian position of having two classes of resident: citizens and guest workers.