Opinion | What Chase Oliver, the 2024 Libertarian Candidate, Believes

In 2016, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate, Gary Johnson, received more votes than any of the party’s other candidates in history and the most of any third-party candidate since Ross Perot — and arguably, the Libertarian Party has never recovered.

Much like the conservative movement, the libertarian movement has been divided between more “normie” libertarians who have embraced criminal justice reform and social freedoms (like immigration and the rights of L.G.B.T.Q. people), and the harder-line libertarians who tend to lean more to the right on cultural issues.

In 2022, the hard-line Mises Caucus took control of the Libertarian Party, promising to gain more votes from disaffected Republicans and conservatives (and annoy a lot of people on the internet, including myself). And in 2024, the Libertarian Party Convention featured appearances from people like former President Donald Trump.

But in a major surprise, the winner of the party’s presidential nominating…