The Reason Roundtable

Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all.

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Tuesday Libertarians Tried To Warn You About Executive Power
Fri Feb 6th Do Republicans Want To Control Elections?
Tue Feb 3rd Democrats Are Flipping Trump Districts in Texas?

The Reason Roundtable

Feb 10, 2026
1 hour
101 MB

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss Katherine's New York Times op-ed, "Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump," which lays out how Trump-era governance has repeatedly vindicated libertarian warnings about executive power, civil liberties, and the risks of trading principle for partisan advantage. The group then turns to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's defense of warrantless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) searches as a concrete example of how quickly Republican commitments to constitutional limits can erode once a party is in power, and why libertarian ideas so often get embraced only in o...

The Reason Roundtable

Libertarians Tried To Warn You About Executive Power

The Reason Roundtable

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