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Gary Johnson

Governor of New Mexico, 1995 to 2003

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A two-term Republican governor who became the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee in 2012 and 2016, favoring low taxes, drug legalization and staying out of foreign conflicts.

Gary Johnson sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly libertarian on liberty and authority, strongly free market on economy and strongly non-interventionist on interventionism.

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Where Gary Johnson sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Gary Johnson

Bryan Caplan American economist97%Robert Nozick American philosopher, 1938 to 200295%Milton Friedman American economist, 1912 to 200694%Ludwig von Mises Austrian economist, 1881 to 197394%Edward Snowden American whistleblower and former intelligence contractor93%Voltaire French writer and philosopher, 1694 to 177893%Johan Norberg Swedish author and historian of ideas92%Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 199591%

People furthest from Gary Johnson

Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader of Iran, 2026 to present1%Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17151%Ruhollah Khomeini Supreme Leader of Iran, 1979 to 19892%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 19432%

Political views closest to Gary Johnson

Austrian schoolAn economic tradition that stresses individual choice, sound money and skepticism about…97%Anarcho-capitalismAbolishes the state in favor of private property, voluntary contracts and competing…97%MinarchismLimits the state to a minimal "night-watchman" role of courts, police and defense.96%CypherpunkUses cryptography and open software to protect privacy and to weaken state and corporate…94%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.