Chase Oliver of Georgia won the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination in dramatic fashion on Sunday night.

Oliver’s victory on Sunday night was a blow to the Mises Caucus, the right-leaning faction that took control of the Libertarian Party at the 2022 convention and that had orchestrated Trump’s appearance at the convention. That faction’s preferred candidate was Rectenwald.

I’m not a fan of the Mises Caucus, so I think this is hilarious.

There was widespread media attention in recent weeks fixated on whether the Libertarian Party would nominate a prominent non-Libertarian like Kennedy or even Trump.

Neither got anywhere close to winning. Kennedy was eliminated after the first round of balloting, while Trump did not even qualify for the first round and received just six write-in votes.

Good on you LP.

Now, I know next to nothing about Chase Oliver, but being gay and young will certainly set him apart from the old men he’s competing against. I hope he’ll get a good amount of media attention to spread the libertarian message.

Anyway, what are your thoughts? Did the convention make the right call? Would one of the other candidates have been better? Would you prefer no candidate?

  • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I don’t think young and gay necessarily carries intrinsic benefit, but I agree there is some instrumental benefit. It will set him apart as you say, and also will reveal bigots and reactionaries for what they are.

    Alice Weidl is a 46yo lesbian living in the Swiss together with her female Sri Lankan partner and her two adopted sons. She identifies herself as agnostic.

    Yet she is the leader of the rightwing-extremist AfD party in Germany and has been since 2017 (back then she was 38yo).

    Yes, you can be a relatively young homosexual agnostic woman in a relationship with someone from another continent and still be the leader of a Neonazi party.