Commentary: Elected Libertarians show what the third party can do
What exactly do Libertarians do?
Wait - don't answer that. As someone who edited a small-l libertarian magazine for eight years, I know all your jokes: Libertarians are the people who lose (or spoil!) elections. They perform aesthetically challenging stripteases on C-SPAN, conduct unfortunate personal experiments with colloidal silver. I get it.
But at least 169 of these exotic creatures hold elected office across the country, from a broke, 19-year-old college student who sits on the Board of Assessment Appeals in tiny
