I agree completely . That ' s easy for me , being a minarchist , but I think there are some excellent points here . Johnson left a lot of votes on the table that wanted to support him . But instead he called them racists for wanting to control the border . That move right there alone was the difference between him being on the debate stage or not . It was the difference between finishing with 3 . 9 % of the popular vote and finishing with at least 10 %. Who knows what could have happened if he hadn ' t marginalized himself and made it impossible to grow the party . Fuck man , even if you believe in open borders , try to make that argument without calling 40 % of the Republican party who didn ' t want to vote for Trump fucking racists because they use the entirely legitimate term illegal immigrants . Ugh , I wanted to punch him in his fucking stupid fucking face when I heard that shit . And I knew that there was no longer any chance of his candidacy meaning anything .