Now that Donald Trump has all but secured the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, those in the party who oppose him are in a bind. Some have decided to hold their noses and endorse. Others have gone in for Hillary Clinton. Some have floated the idea of supporting an independent Republican ticket headed by a respected figure such as Mitt Romney.

There is also, of course, the Libertarian Party option, which is beginning to look attractive to some Republicans who disagree with Trump’s don’t-touch position on Social Security and Medicare and his immigration restrictionism. Search traffic for its candidates has surged recently, as have registrations with the party that ran Ron Paul against George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis in 1988.

As it happens, I was able to get up close and personal with virtually the entire Libertarian presidential field back in February, when I attended the party’s first official debate ahead of the cycle in Biloxi, Mississippi, at the Beau Rivage.