Libertarianism

Correcting the Stereotype About Libertarians Only Caring About 'Weed and Porn'

A Daily Wire writer went on a tirade against libertarians and got the movement all wrong.

Robby Soave | 9.29.2026 4:15 PM

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If there's one thing that absolutely drives me crazy, it's when conservative commentators start complaining that libertarians like me, and maybe you, are the real problem, because all we do is fight for drugs and gambling and pornography and prostitution, but we're unwilling to fight for liberty where it really counts, on the things that matter to conservatives.

I see various people on the right making this argument from time to time—it's a serious allegation, made by people who are either clueless about libertarians, or actively lying about us.

The latest to commit this failing is Megan Basham, an author and culture reporter for The Daily Wire, who writes a lot about religion and social conservatism. I don't know her at all, and maybe she's a nice person who generally does great work. But when it comes to libertarians, she is dead wrong. On X, she wrote the following:

My biggest problem with libertarians is that they can usually rouse themselves to fight for weed and porn and everything destructive, and rarely anything good........

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