How did the Libertarian Party start?

How did the Libertarian Party start?

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It started in the 1970s. A group of people got together, took these Libertarian ideas and turned it into a Libertarian party because they were dissatisfied that free-market economics was on the Republican side and more of the staying out of the private lives was on the Democratic side. They kind of created their own Libertarian party to fuse both those things together and it really started to take off in the 1980s.