This map placing is insane - especially post debate performance where he was competing with Ron DeSantis to be the most pro-cop, anti gay rights.
The map clearly is using the libertarian party beliefs as an axis instead of the concept of liberty. If you do that you can't really have the opposite axis just be general "authoritarianism" you need it to be Stalinism or something.
tried to quantify this authoritative vs libertarian scoring via related scorings (and using their use of the term libertarian) so used both economic, and personal liberty related scorings from the other &qu… Read moreot;themes". sectioned them off into scores of -10 to +10 towards libertarianism. Per the Isidewith's axis - he is scored at 7.0 on that L v A axis
My best attempt to score him via the other theme axis - trying to be as close as I could making at making a referential score based on concepts in the other themes, gave him a -1.3.
adding in the couple of iffy axis that could go both ways, he got a -0.10
Then just being throwing the axis that are barely related and removing the slight weighting modifications I made on some originally added axis, all to greatly benefit his score- He got a 1.2.
All this using the other axis themes which may be a bit wonky themselves. But yeah somehow the guy that was competing to be the most anti-personal liberty on stage is comparable to Larry Elder per the candidate map.
Compared to the more familiar colorful compass most are familiar with,(using the same -10 to +10 scoring for each axis) - per ISidewith, he is around +8 capitalist and +5 libertarian(compass axis) - this would make him more libertarian(US party) in ideology than any Libertarian presidential candidate that I can remember.
now my pure vibes of where he would be on the colored compass would probably between Trump and DeSantis authoritarian, and a bit more pro business than all the other GOP candidates. So if I had to place him with my vibes, it would be like 6.5 up on the y axis, and 8 to the right on the x axis. So basically the same on capitalism but the reverse on liberty.
Can I get some true libertarians to weigh in on this (especially if you saw the debates) - no paleocons pretending to be libertarian please
