Libertarians can only harm their cause by joining in the culture war.
Be it Libertarian Party hipster-doofi trying to appease the SJWs, or Lew Rockwell types dog-whistling the hillbillies, the result is the same.
Every time the news cycle is dominated by some farcical controversy about gay cakes or the decor of federal buildings or how many times Obama said "Islamic" or whatever is the nonsense du jour, that's a squandered opportunity for libertarians. The red tribe and the blue tribe aren't ever, left to their own devices, going to talk about excessive spending, taxing, regulating, printing, warring, indefinite detaining, or anything else that actually matters: not if they can get sufficient ratings/votes by playing up the culture war. If we too focus on the culture war, no one mentions the important issues.
In years past, there was a lively intra-libertarian debate over whether the ideology should be "thin" (committed only to the NAP) or "thick" (committed to certain cultural values). At the time, it was the left libertarians who were advocating for "thickism" (all libertarians should embrace "diversity" et al), with the right libertarians defending "thinnism" (libertarianism shouldn't be polluted by the culture war). Now, post-Trump, there's nary a thinnist to be found. The former thinnists all jumped into the culture war on the right side and started writing articles about how western civilization will be saved by an obnoxious gay man yelling at college feminists...
Thick libertarianism means a libertarianism that's become fat and bloated on the empty calories of the culture war.
Dump the Chic-Filet and the gay cake and get back in fighting shape, I say.
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