Anonymous asked: About your hypothesis of "ancap false (burnt) flag", I mostly just see it as people deciding to be edgy anti-authoritarians in 2009-2016 who then find out they're not so anti-authoritarian when Trump's in office and decide to go all-in on statist apologia. There's lots of people saying "Ancapistan must be an ethnostate" or similar shit nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if the ancap flag-bearer was one of them.
One other hypothesis I’ve come up with is that various loud self-promoting ancap mouthpieces like Stefan Molyneux that have moved sharply toward the authoritarian side of the political compass since the beginning of election season are all showing themselves to be in the same business as Hitler immediately after WW1, ie they were originally set to inform on and play pied piper to radicals that might threaten the state, in this case libertarians - the feds actually do feel even more threatened by sovereign citizens and anti-war Ron Paul supporters than foreign terrorists, if you read their memos - and they have wormed their way into positions of influence and leadership despite never being that solid on the actual ideology and constantly trying to associate it with weird/controversial shit and violence. But then when the priority shifted to authoritarian white nationalists after they finally found a voice last year, the state’s targets shifted and thus so did their positions. I noticed a few people shift miles of ideological ground in a matter of a few months once Trump became the likely nominee - the communists have been making noise about how this proves ancaps were fascists all along and it’s like, no, those people have departed from the ideology.
And I guess if someone got all their political ideas from one of these folks then they could think it would be a reasonable thing for an ancap to literally wave the flag for Trump at a rally. But that’s like the extremely confused ancoms supporting the Remain campaign in the UK last year. When you see people like that obviously violating the fundamental principles of their ideology you should be suspicious about their sincerity or the sincerity of their leaders.
I was originally under the impression that there was some separate contingent of folks there representing libertarianism, but if this is someone who got off the bus with Trumpists and was part of their organization, like, what the fuck. Trump is a torture-loving war criminal and even when he happens to be on our side on some issue we shouldn’t forget that. Waving the black and yellow flag for any US president makes zero goddamn sense. I don’t see anyone who’s been a libertarian for any length of time not feeling an instinctual visceral wrongness about that. Anyway, that’s probably too much analysis to devote to one guy who was way out of his lane.