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Marcus Molitzas, founder of the blog Daily Coast.com, has engaged libertarians and Democrats in a lively

debate about whether a new species of Libertarian Democrat is emerging within the Democratic

Party.

His essay, along with responses by Bruce Reed, Harold Meerson, and Nick Gillespie, are available

for your reading pleasure this month in Cato's

online magazine Cato Unbound. Today in part one of a two-part interview

Coze lays out what it means to be a Libertarian Democrat.

Without nit-thinking about every issue in which what it means to be a Libertarian Democrat.

Without nit-taking about every issue in which there is disagreement,

we can probably safely say that an alliance with either party is deeply flawed.

Why is the only Democrats less so?

Well, ultimately at the end of the day, I consider myself a pragmatic person,

and I assume that a lot of libertarians are as well.

And they're going to have to make a decision which party is more committed to personal liberties than the other.

And it's not a question of who's going to pander to libertarians.

I think it's a question of from a practical perspective in a two-party system, one party have to by definition

being better for personal liberties than the other.

That was party is that going to be.

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