I’m Michael Rectenwald—a Ph.D., an author of 12 books, a public speaker, a columnist, and an entrepreneur. I’m running for President of the United States as a Libertarian. I can barely believe that I just wrote that. Several years ago, I was a professor at New York University and an avowed Marxist. Then, in the fall of 2016, I dared to speak up about the “social justice” madness on campuses across the U.S. and was promptly savaged by the woke mob, who tried to cancel me. The authoritarians who wanted to “correct” my thinking did just that, only not as they had hoped. They forcibly ripped the scales of their ideology from my eyes and allowed me to see clearly. Meanwhile, censorship, propaganda, and the policing of opinion have only increased since then, as I knew they would. I soon became a hardcore libertarian and have not looked back. In today’s insane and brazenly politicized climate, I know that many Americans have similarly evolved and transformed.
I’m running because our country is run by totalitarians, like those that came after me at NYU. They have taken over the government, most large corporations, and nearly all cultural institutions. They have us struggling to make ends meet as prices and debts skyrocket, savings dwindle, and Americans are kowtowed into silence and compliance for fear of having their voices or even their livelihoods cancelled.
All this while the U.S. regime escalates conflicts with world powers and focuses more on promoting a woke political agenda than it does on the prosperity, liberty, safety, and security of the American people.
I have three children, a grandson, and another grandson on the way.
I am fighting for the future they deserve, a future in which individual liberty and opportunity are paramount.
I’m running because our country is run by totalitarians, like those that came after me at NYU. They have taken over the government, most large corporations, and nearly all cultural institutions. They have us struggling to make ends meet as prices and debts skyrocket, savings dwindle, and Americans are kowtowed into silence and compliance for fear of having their voices or even their livelihoods cancelled.
All this while the U.S. regime escalates conflicts with world powers and focuses more on promoting a woke political agenda than it does on the prosperity, liberty, safety, and security of the American people.
I have three children, a grandson, and another grandson on the way.
I am fighting for the future they deserve, a future in which individual liberty and opportunity are paramount.