Libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently probusiness political agenda as a noble bid for human freedom. Whatever we may think of libertarianism as a set of ideas, practically speaking, it is a doctrine that owes its visibility to the obvious charms it holds for the wealthy and the powerful. The reason we have so many well-funded libertarians in American these days is not because libertarianism suddenly acquired an enormous grassroots following, but because it appeals to those who are able to fund ideas. Like social Darwinism and Christian Science before it, libertarianism flatters the successful and rationalizes their core beliefs about the world. They warm to the libertarian idea that taxation is theft because they themselves don’t like to pay taxes. They fancy the libertarian notion that regulation is communist because they themselves find regulation intrusive and annoying. Libertarianism is a politics born to be subsidized. In the “free market of ideas,” it is a sure winner.

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“Backlash culture abounds with tall tales of liberal out control hippies spitting on [Vietnam War] veterans with Jane Fonda narking on POWs to their Vietnamese captors…”
“Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think. What's the Matter with Kansas? (film) 2009 documentary movie based on Thomas Frank's best-selling book of the same name. Politics
Frank started his political journey as a College Republican but has come to be highly critical of conservatism especially the presidency of George W.

Frank is a historian of culture and ideas and analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda advertising popular culture mainstream journalism and economics. Thomas Frank (born March 21 1965) is an American author journalist and columnist for Harper's Magazine. With his writing he explores the rhetoric and impact of the 'Culture Wars' in American political life and the relationship between politics and culture in the United States.