Consider the First Amendment. With a Republican candidate like Trump, who has said he has never asked God to forgive him for anything, who seems to care not at all about the religious liberty concerns of Christians, and who proposes religious discrimination against Muslims entering the country, you’d think the Libertarians could run a candidate characterized by his or her liberality when it comes to religious expression, free association when it comes to business, and a robust commitment to the First Amendment and the free exercise of religion. You’d be wrong again.

Johnson has said that it should be illegal for Christian wedding vendors to decline to serve wedding ceremonies that conflict with their religious beliefs. He has also participated in scare-mongering about the threat of sharia law coming to America. He gave an interview in which he suggested America should, like France, ban the wearing of certain Muslim head-coverings, which he had to retract later.

Or consider guns. Clinton recently tried strenuously to avoid referring to the right to keep and bear arms as a “constitutional right,” a fact which she may lament but almost anyone would admit. Trump has a history of supporting bans on “assault weapons,” and used to make fun of Republican politicians who “walk the NRA line” on gun control. Only lately has he converted to becoming a “strong” supporter of the Second Amendment. You’d think the Libertarian Party could come up with a ticket that believed that the right to bear arms secures our Republic’s freedom. Alas, the Libertarians’ veep nominee once supported a battery of gun control rules that would have been among the strictest in the nation, including limiting the number of guns an individual could purchase.