In the Cato Blog, David Boaz posits that in the US, current political trends seem to evolve towards the re-emergence of libertarianism.
Mr. Boaz writes,
This chart, prepared for me by Garrett Reim, shows recent trends in public opinion polls on several issues — support for smaller government, marriage equality, and marijuana legalization along with opposition to President Obama’s health care plan and to the job the president is doing. The latter two have moved more sharply, but all five lines move at least marginally in a libertarian direction:
Read the rest here.
What was popular then may not be popular now.
As we have long been saying—the world doesn’t not operate in a stasis. And this applies to politics too, where public sentiment continuously changes depending on the prevailing conditions.
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