The Libertarian Party chair, a Redditor and Trump walk into a bar

Javier Milei demonstrated that slashing regulatory bureaucracy is a solution to existential inflation.

We can lower spending more easily by drastically cutting the cost of food, housing and medicine than through politically unpopular austerity, or getting a balanced budget out of Congress.

Most libertarians are waiting for the collapse and the system eventually will. But the world has been given a blueprint. We have an opportunity for prosperity that will allow us to create off ramps to state dependency and start building towards a positive future that mitigates the chaos that will come with our current trajectory.

Before we dismiss any prospects for hope, we should examine whether it’s because we truly think it’s impossible, or have become too habitually nihilistic to recognize an opportunity.

I spoke with President Trump over a long dinner about this opportunity and reminded him Javier Milei was the only person Tucker Carlson interviewed who got more views than Trump.

I credited Trump with stopping WW3 which he was adamant about, acknowledged spending is a largely untouchable disaster, and good job on flattening new regulations like Reagan, but unless we rip out the roots of the system and fundamentally alter the progressive era managerial bureaucracy, things are going to get worse, and we will be screwed. If we do push back, we have a chance of creating serious prosperity, which will create the slack necessary to unwind the rest of the mess.

Trump understands the problems, the opportunities, the constraints of the system and the special interests.

He knows doing just a few good things like in 2016 won’t be enough to alter our course, guarantee a future for his kids or forge a positive legacy.

In his RNC closing speech, Trump leaned on deregulation and energy production as the solution for being able to start bringing down the debt, and for the first time he asked ‘with great humility’ that we become excited for the future.

Libertarians hate crediting Trump out of fear of seemingly endorsing what we don’t agree with. But getting in the middle of neocons war games, school choice and deregulation under Trump is going to create opportunity and prosperity, if anyone understands the significance of this it should be us.

The overturning of Chevron sets up the perfect conditions for challenging the regulatory state with or without congress. If Trump takes on the managerial bureaucracy and picks the next supreme court justices, the left will have a hard time getting elected, let alone packing the court to stop visible progress.

The neocons will be hovering around to take credit for something they fought against for decades, while the libertarians will be distancing themselves and losing the opportunity to be recognized for the prosperity associated with our own ideas.

If Libertarians shy away from using Milei as an example of how our ideas can give people a positive future because we are afraid of indirectly enabling Israel, it will be a tragic missed opportunity that sets the US liberty movement back and puts the momentum into the hands of conservatives who will act on his example.

Libertarians must coalition, influence, and be a part of some of the biggest wins in reversing progressive era managerial bureaucracy and exposing the deep state.

If we do not, our only relevance will be as a historical footnote of people who correctly predicted the future others eventually brought about, after a lot more pain and suffering than we need to experience.