But I don’t think Gary Johnson and Bill Weld could stand the enormous pressure that would come from advocacy groups and the media and people without coverage… and do nothing.

A piecemeal dismantling of our quasi public-private health care system is possible, too. But Libertarians haven’t said what that would look like either.

The point here is that Johnson is running to become the chief executive of an extremely statist entity, and he’s doing so from a perch that is diametrically opposed to the modern state. This cognitive dissonance is hard for Libertarians to resolve. It would be near impossible to govern solely as a Libertarian if Republicans and Democrats split control of Congress, too. On economic issues, the Libertarian ticket might easily align with the corporate cloth-coat wing of the party, but on trade agreements, it would not. Nor would a Libertarian Supreme Court nominee please the right.