The GOP has completely abandoned
its social libertarian views in order to go along with religious voters» uncompromising views on abortion rights and gay rights.
Not exact matches
The survey found that most Tea Party members reflect the
views of religious conservatives, as opposed to
libertarians, on
social issues.
Last November I pointed out that a significant faction of the Tea Party is a subset of the religious right and that, despite the perception of the movement being comprised of economically - oriented
libertarians, the majority held
social conservative
views.
The former
view, one that accepts the
social contract theory, leads to a hyper «individualism that, on the liberal side, fetishizes free speech and subscribes to a «do your own thing» morality, and, on the conservative side, is reflected in
libertarian economics, as in Margaret Thatcher's famous (or notorious?)
The party may very well not represent many of their
views (those ~ 20 %
libertarians are among the examples you list, who largely disagree with Republicans on
social issues like gay marriage - yet, they tend to vote Republican, over other issues like fiscal policy)
On the substantive questions, I would take a
social democratic
view of immigration, not a liberal or
libertarian one.
Then there's the individual as the vector of
social change, the perception that Society is immanent in each individual action and can't simply be hypostasised as the State, imposed from above or evoked through fugitive concepts such as «public opinion» It's a
view that's been quite strong since the late 1960s and is shared (the «desiring subject» for example) by what remains of the
libertarian part of the Left.