I agree with Patri Friedman, libertarianism is for optimists.
December 2008 Archives
Tyler Cowen: "I believe the Obama years will cause a crisis for progressivism roughly comparable to what the Bush years have brought upon libertarianism."
Dave Kopel, recently:
I think even while we fear the worst, we can hope for the best. It's very unlikely that anti-Second Amendment stuff is going to be the top of the Obama and Democratic Congressional agenda early in 2009, because the economic issues are so much larger right now. But Obama is in his heart probably the most extreme anti-gun president we've ever had. So my guess would be, he'll do like John Howard did in Australia, and various administrations did in the United Kingdom, which is have a very fierce anti-gun agenda ready to go as soon as there's a terrorist attack or some other infamous crime, and they sense a brief window of public panic when they can try to push something through without the time for reflection.
We'll watch.
