I think it's true to call him a libertarian, but I also think it's true to call him a centrist. Both are inherently incoherent things to be, both borne from a mishmash of aesthetic preferences. People who want to believe they can speak equally to contradictory sides, above all else.

I’ll chew on that. Still inclined to think they’re distinct & incompatible incoherent things, but… I’d be curious to know what you make of someone like Radley Balko, who’s devoted decades to fighting police and legal injustice, especially directed at minorities? 1/2

Not sure if he still considers himself libertarian, and he was always a ways from others I knew, but his belief in justice & equal treatment and objection to state oppression was always clearly sincere and principled 2/2

I think there are some principled libertarians, but they mostly call themselves liberals now.