Because US libertarians are focused on Domestic not International issues. Sure they are non-interventialist, but the primary focus they seem to have is on the economic expenditure. It's literally something that they'd trade for almost any other goal.
I think it's in the nature of an aspirational rather a core goal.
You're downplaying it. Having read lots of Ron Paul pieces Fenring sent my way, it sounds like principles of non-intervention and anti empire-building was not some mere sideshow for Libertarians, but a key part of their small-government worldview, which puts them at 180-degrees from Cheney's ilk.
Maybe lay out what you see as in direct conflict on this one. I think the religious right's goals conflict everyone else's but they are the ultimate in a group that has no other home. There's literally nothing they have in common with the Dems. At best the Dems could hope they schism into their own party "splitting" the Repub vote, not that they'd switch sides.
That's true, but right now most corporate leaders have concluded that pro-gay, pro-trans stances are 'business friendly' to the extent that companies (with ownerships in either party) are threatening to pull out of states based on policies being pushed along religiously motivated lines. Of course there are exceptions (for example, Christian-owned businesses like Hobby Lobby), but the "big business" wing of Republicans are currently very much allergic to certain religious priorities (see: War on Christmas).
And to be clear, of course I'm inserting my opinion into this conversation. It's literally my opinion that blue collar workers socially better align with the Republicans, they are socially conservative gun owners that don't have a high affinity for identity politics. Historically they've voted on their economic affinity with the Dems - which is based on union support - but if the Dems campaign against their industries it breaks that economic argument. If Republican plans generate wage gains and new jobs in those industries, even if they don't support the unions, it's question of rationality whether that causes Blue collar workers to notice they'd be better off as Republicans.
I've heard enough arguments about people voting against their own economic interests (read "What's the Matter with Kansas?") to think you are oversimplifying here. In any event, my point is not "who is right" but rather to explain voting behavior to you. Regardless of who is correct, there are reasons and arguments that are made in both directions, and as a voting bloc so far they seem more persuaded by Dem ones.
White nationalist participation is about equal in the two parties (multiple studies have demonstrated that white racism is about equal in the two), notwithstanding the media hard sell to the opposite.
On this, I'd truly welcome some data. Please give me some sort of link on it. I would be gobsmacked if white nationalists were voting Dem in similar numbers as Republican. And I'm not talking broadly about "racists" or whatever that means- I'm talking about KKK-affiliated, Richard Spencer fan-type people.
Maybe one day they'll realize that "Republican racism" is a media myth and look at the real gains that Republican policies bring them.
Honestly, it's a leftist delusion that Republicans somehow want bad things for our black communities. We want them to have great jobs, economic success and safety, and we honestly think our policies are going to bring that about.
I can agree it's a sad delusion that Republicans wish ill on black communities - there is too much assumption of "bad faith" going around. But then I also think income inequality is a serious issue and Republicans have sacralized free markets too much to see policy effects clearly.
I'm flat out stating that Republicans don't believe what they believe because of "loyalty," they believe what they believe because of substantive underlying principles that demand that result. This is not pyschology, this is logic.
I never said they believe things out of loyalty - but I do think they are less willing to go after their own in-group when politics are on the line (unlike the mob that came for Al Franken).
Of course I value loyalty, as does every human being to some extent. That doesn't mean, as you are implying, that I adopt positions out of loyalty to a greater group. Again, this exists as argument to establish that the "other" is acting on an unsound and unconsidered basis. Therefore, arguments about the facts and reasoning need not be made as they will just be ignored.
Funny, I could have said the same about when you ascribed Dem behavior to "feelings"...

But Loyalty tests much higher in self-described conservatives than liberals, and it's not *everything* (that's a strawman of my position) but it influences things.
Well, Bernie supporters to me are a good case. What you say defined them? Is it a commitment to socialism? To me that's the ultimate in feelings versus facts. Every part of the concept of socialism is built on feel good principals, it all sounds like the nice lessons we learned as children, sharing for all, no one left behind, leveling the playing field, taking from those who refuse to share (even though they benefited from society), but it ignores reality, which is pretty much an extensive record of economic destruction and human misery. It's pretty much the defining philosophy for the road to Heck being paved with good intentions.
Are you familiar with the distinctions between socialism and social democratic policies? It isn't a black/white dichotomy where you are either Ayn Rand or Karl Marx. One can decide that the health care industry should be dealt with differently from smart phone industry without becoming Venezuela.
I think I went through an extensive analysis of Alabama before. But you literally just cited to an example where the Republicans in an overwhelming red district did not elect a person because they were accused of harassment. Where they literally sacrificed their federal political voice in a Senate that is barely in the control of their political party rather than put him in power.
Yeah - BARELY. It should have been no contest.
In any case, I'll let you have the last word because my time is short, but I enjoyed our exchange!