Before FAANG was really a thing, I worked in/with/around blue collar folks. Ron Paul types were not that uncommon. Vocal pro-union folks who voted for Reagan and embraced Milton Friedman even after their jobs got shipped somewhere else. As their benefits and health collapsed as they aged, any change to healthcare became Hillarycare and the root of communism.

At universities though, the libertarians had actually read The Road to Serfdom and could debate with you. Today’s libertarianism is google search deep, just another veneer over tha antipathies of our time.