Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

Angela (not to be confused with Megan) is the former chair of the Libertarian Party and current chair of the Mises Caucus:
[tw eet]https://x.com/RealAngelaMc/status/2015477828255428937[/tweet]
[tw eet]https://x.com/RealAngelaMc/status/2015661403084820734[/tweet]

Tirstan also claims to be a libertarian on his profile.

"protectionism is an admission of inferiority" is to ignore different manifestations of superiority and inferiority

you could imagine a horde of xenomorphs being unleashed on the US and we shouldn't protect ourselves from them because that would be admitting we are worse than them, we should compete with them in the free market of ideas

so they murder everyone and then when they have the place to themselves we discover are utterly inferior at tasks such as manufacturing, industrial maintenance, technological innovation, governance, and improving quality of life

so if we valued those things, then it turns out protectionism wouldn't have been "admitting inferiority" on those fronts, it would've been preserving our superiority