Libertarians and right-wingers have much to learn from one another.

To a right-winger, libertarians lack the ability to make the changes needed by not being willing to use statist tactics to consolidate power. Libertarians are therefore too idealistic and ineffective.

To a libertarian, right-wingers fall into the same statist traps as leftists, which results in loss of individual liberties and increased government control, which backfires once power shifts.

There is a Middle Way.

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As a libertarian I have simpathy for conservatives right wing as long as they don't want to legitimate taxes and the monopoly of the use of force to impose their ideas and costumes.

“That government is best which governs least.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

It is possible to have highly effective, yet minimalist governance.

This concept, known as a Watchman State or Minarchist state, was prevalent during the Gilded Age of America and the Victorian England.

In such a state, the government enforces the non-aggression principle to maintain an orderly, law-abiding society without interfering in business practices or daily life. Civilization tends to prosper under these conditions.

The most coherent vision of a positive libertarian future is described in “The Sovereign Individual.”

The most coherent vision of a positive right-wing future is described in the essays and interviews of Curtis Yarvin.

Recommend both.

There is nothing better about a right winger than a left winger. They are basically the same thing with just different issues they want to be authoritarian about.