ILYA SOMIN OFFERS THOUGHTS ON The Demise of the Democratic Leadership Council and the Future of Liberaltarianism. “Although the New Democrats were far from being libertarians themselves, there was important common ground between the two groups. The weakness of the DLC and other similar organizations today is an indication of the extent to which liberal Democratic thinking has moved left over the last decade. This movement makes it much harder to achieve any viable liberaltarian coalition.” Liberaltarianism was always just a lure for a certain batch of susceptible rubes.