The only main substantive ideological difference between libertarians and the alt-right is one that Vox accidentally highlights: the alt-right tend to oppose absolute free trade because that means open borders. So, the alt-right essentially is libertarianism, but modulated to fascist principles. This is not to say that the actual dogma of the Austrian School, or even of the MPS, is directly determining the content of alt-right websites and chatrooms today. The point is the movement, both in the sense of a nebulous chain of actors motivated by the same resentments and justified by the same
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