Editing Murray Rothbard (section)

=== Paleolibertarianism ===
[[File:Lewrockwell.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Lew Rockwell]]]]
In 1989, Rothbard left the Libertarian Party and began building bridges to the post-[[Cold War]] anti-interventionist right, calling himself a [[paleolibertarian]], a conservative reaction against the [[cultural liberalism]] of mainstream libertarianism.<ref name="Paul Newsletters" /><ref>Rothbard, Murray (November 1994). [http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch16.html "Big Government Libertarianism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131223653/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch16.html|date=January 31, 2017}}, LewRockwell.com</ref> Paleolibertarianism sought to appeal to disaffected working-class whites through a synthesis of cultural conservatism and libertarian economics. According to [[Reason (magazine)|''Reason'']], Rothbard advocated right-wing populism in part because he was frustrated that mainstream thinkers were not adopting the libertarian view and suggested that former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard [[David Duke]], as well as Wisconsin Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]],<ref name=":4">{{cite news |last=Rothbard |first=Murray |date=2010 |title=A Strategy for the Right |newspaper=Mises Institute |url=https://mises.org/library/strategy-right |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030205243/https://mises.org/library/strategy-right |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |access-date=September 18, 2020 |publisher=[[mises.org]]}}</ref> were models for an "Outreach to the Rednecks" effort that a broad libertarian/paleoconservative coalition could use. Working together, the coalition would expose the "unholy alliance of 'corporate liberal' Big Business and media elites, who, through big government, have privileged and caused to rise up a parasitic Underclass". Rothbard blamed this "underclass" for "looting and oppressing the bulk of the middle and working classes in America".<ref name="Paul Newsletters" /> Regarding Duke's political program, Rothbard asserted that there was "nothing" in it that "could not also be embraced by paleoconservatives or paleolibertarians; lower taxes, dismantling the bureaucracy, slashing the welfare system, attacking [[affirmative action]] and racial set-asides, calling for equal rights for all Americans, including whites".<ref name="lewrockwell">{{cite web |last=Rothbard |first=Murray |date=January 1992 |title=Right-wing Populism |url=http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch5.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524131828/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch5.html |archive-date=May 24, 2016 |access-date=August 14, 2013 |publisher=[[LewRockwell.com]]}} Originally published in the January 1992 Rothbard-Rockwell Report.</ref> He also praised the "racialist science" in Charles Murray's controversial book ''[[The Bell Curve]]''.{{Sfn|Hawley|2016|p=166}}

Rothbard co-founded and became a key figure in the [[John Randolph Club]], which was an alliance between the Mises Institute and the paleoconservative [[Rockford Institute]].{{Sfn|Hawley|2016|p=164}}<ref name=":12" /> He supported the presidential campaign of [[Pat Buchanan]] in 1992, writing that "with Pat Buchanan as our leader, we shall break the clock of [[social democracy]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Rothbard |first=Murray |title=Strategy for the Right |url=http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard219.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313192556/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard219.html |archive-date=March 13, 2014 |access-date=August 14, 2013 |publisher=[[LewRockwell.com]]}} First published in ''The Rothbard-Rockwell Report'', January 1992.</ref> When Buchanan dropped out of the Republican primary race, Rothbard then shifted his interest and support to [[Ross Perot]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Rockwell |first=Llewellyn H. Jr. |author-link=Lew Rockwell |date=April 8, 2005 |title=Still the State's Greatest Living Enemy |url=https://mises.org/daily/1788 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920065557/http://www.mises.org/daily/1788 |archive-date=September 20, 2013 |access-date=August 13, 2013 |work=Mises Daily |publisher=Ludwig von Mises Institute}}</ref> who Rothbard wrote had "brought an excitement, a verve, a sense of dynamics and of open possibilities to what had threatened to be a dreary race".<ref>Rothbard, Murray (June 1, 1992) [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-01-me-286-story.html "Little Texan Connects Big With Masses: Perot is a populist in the content of his views and in the manner of his candidacy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417154919/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-01-me-286-story.html |date=April 17, 2024 }}, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''</ref> Rothbard eventually withdrew his support from Perot, and endorsed [[George H. W. Bush]] in the [[1992 United States presidential election|1992 election]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Rothbard |first=Murray |date=July 30, 1992 |title=Hold Back the Hordes for 4 More Years: Any sensible American has one real choice – George Bush |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-30-me-4460-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020023729/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-30/local/me-4460_1_george-bush |archive-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Raimondo |first=Justin |author-link=Justin Raimondo |date=October 1, 2012 |title=Race for the White House, 2012: Whom to Root For? |url=http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/09/30/race-for-the-white-house-2012-whom-to-root-for/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501141747/http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/09/30/race-for-the-white-house-2012-whom-to-root-for/ |archive-date=May 1, 2013 |access-date=August 13, 2013 |publisher=[[Antiwar.com]]}}</ref> Like Buchanan, Rothbard opposed the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA);<ref>[[Charley Reese|Reese, Charley]] (October 14, 1993) [https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1993/10/14/the-us-standard-of-living-will-decline-if-nafta-is-approved/ "The U.S. Standard Of Living Will Decline If Nafta Is Approved"], ''[[Orlando Sentinel]]''</ref> however, he had become disillusioned with Buchanan by 1995, believing that the latter's "commitment to protectionism was mutating into an all-round faith in economic planning and the nation state".<ref>Lew Rockwell, [http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/paleoism.html "What I Learned From Paleoism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610014040/https://www.lewrockwell.com/2002/05/lew-rockwell/what-i-learned-from-paleoism/|date=June 10, 2020}}, [[LewRockwell.com]], 2002.</ref>