The Libertarian Part has chosen Chase Oliver, a member of the Left-Wing faction, as its Presidential nominee. He is a supporter of Black Lives Matter, openly hostile to the police’s core mission of protecting lives and property during riots.
Libertarian presidential nominee Chase Oliver is also a radical BLM activist:pic.twitter.com/oz9vOENmDK
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 27, 2024
In addition to this, Oliver has expressed abhorrent views on children and sexuality, notably when it comes to “Drag Queen Story Hour” in public libraries.
Libertarian nominee Chase Oliver:
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 27, 2024
99% of drag queen story hours are fine for kids. If he had children, he says he’d bring them to one and leave them there.
“It’s just like the Wiggles” pic.twitter.com/grNYFtAVHQ
Newsweek reports:
Over the weekend, Chase Oliver won the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination, making him the latest figure to enter the 2024 race for the White House. However, many conservative social media users spoke out against Oliver this week after he was heard speaking about drag shows and comparing them to the children’s musical group The Wiggles.
“A man in a dress or a woman in a suit. That is what drag is,” Oliver said. “That is not inherently sexual. There is inherently sexual drag…there absolutely it but there’s also the ability to perform as a man in a wig without being sexual.”
The Libertarian Party is always in tension between different factions. The left-wing focuses on sexual permissiveness, drug use and anti-police rhetoric, while the right-wing focuses on cutting spending, property, and gun rights. Both sides generally agree on non-interventionist foreign policy. The Washington Post continues:
Democrats and Republicans are worried that especially this year, third-party candidates might pull voters away from their nominees. In 2020, Libertarian nominee Jo Jorgensen garnered more votes than the margin of victory in some battleground states.
In the first round of voting, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who had sought the party’s nomination, was eliminated with 2 percent of the vote after many delegates had argued Kennedy’s platform did not entirely align with Libertarian values. Trump, who was a write-in candidate, got 0.65 percent, or just six votes.
In more than one way, Oliver is an even bigger leftist than Biden. While this might look like a loss to the right-wing caucus, it might also result in more Libertarians flocking to Trump while some Democrats might go to Oliver.
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