I’m a libertarian and Brian falls for the same tropes many people in my party and ideology do, which is contrarian thinking. We could talk about libertarian solutions to education (free college via ISA and school vouchers for K-12), affordable healthcare (insurance reform, arbitrary state line rules, etc.), housing (overburdened zoning laws), environmental concerns (private property rights and a carbon tax), and even welfare (NIT or UBI). Instead we talk about how much better life is as if it’s perfect and how absolutely everything a politician saids is a lie and that taxation is theft. That’s a vocal minority and gives libertarians the reputation of heartless and contrarian people who just want to see themselves enriched at any cost. Brian, unfortunately, falls into the later camp being more focused on the economic side of libertarianism and forgetting the social side.