>>20918325 (LB)
Trump advisors know.
They know libertarians often understand a person as either libertarian or not a libertarian, because it's a logic based system, which can have sensitive outcome of needing to use the same logic to group by not libertarian thereby grouping not libertarians into the same category.
By Trump 'self-identifying' as a libertarian to that crowd, he masterfully traversed the logical either or logic gate and thereby effectively assuring by voice that he, Trump, agrees with a lot of what the libertarians are saying, which is precisely the message they needed to hear to immediately settle that if there is going to be a two logic gate of libertarian and not libertarian, then Trump is 'with' the libertarian path.
Unfortunately the reaulting necessity of understanding a person's ideas as either libertarian or not libertarian, it sometimes gives excuse to lazy thinkers that merely the naming event when it happens, for either or unfortunate additional mistake of believing that an argument is won merely by naming a person as not libertarian.
It was a brilliant rhetorical statement. Libertarians who name themselves as libertarians, often like it when they hear someone else say they are libertarian, because it almost like a promise to the receiver, an offer of commitment to the set of ideas, what with libertarianism being in the 'underground' of idealism in 2024 if only because the empirical world of praxis in government of 2024, particularly government funding, is Marxist. Libertarianism must be idealist in a communist world of action, whereas Communism is idealist in a free enterprise world of action (in what funds governments).