Libertarian Party has been gradually weakening and had a massive internal schism in 2022 leading to sections of the hardliners defecting to Trump and many of the moderates ending up with RFK Jr(who dropped out to endorse Trump). Nominee is a Left Libertarian and for reasons they weren’t even listed as a third party candidate on most polls or polling conglomerates until September as they weren’t in the Top 5 which further hurt their outreach.
Green Party has bounced back as they got Jill Stein’s namecred and benefited from being above the Libertarians in the rankings thanks to RFK.
Constitution Party(hard right) has been bleeding support since the Obama era, most of them have been leaving for Tea Party Republicans and the remainder is being siphoned off by Peter Solski’s Moderate Christian Party.
The PSL is the fastest growing third party right now, overtaking the Constituion Party in 2020 for 3rd place and set to potentially overtake the Greens and Libertarians if they continue infighting and bleeding support.
Cornel West exists.
I’m super late to this, but I don’t think it’s correct to call Chase Oliver a left libertarian. Right vs left in the context of libertarianism is capitalist property rights vs socialist or mutualist property rights. Oliver is clearly on the capitalist side. He’s a bit culturally lefty as a former Democrat, gay man comfortable with Pride festivals, and an antiwar activist, but culturally lefty isn’t exactly the same thing.
By the standards of the party, especially after the hard right takeover in 2022 by the Hoppean and Rothbardian types, he absolutely is.
That’s kind of like saying Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney are left conservatives by the standards of the Republican Party especially after the takeover of Donald Trump in 2016. It’s kind of a ridiculous definition.
It matters when you’re comparing margins of how many Democrats Vs Republicans are being swayed