This should be a good starter to get things going.

I'm a libertarian. And I detest that pragmatism is seen as a four letter word in the Libertarian Party. It sounds bizarre, but for the libertarians to make progress they must first accept small gains as the currency of politics for decades. This means deliberately acting against your own principles in the short term for long term gain. And libertarians find that awfully difficult to do. Democrats, OTOH, are outstanding at it. They advance big government typically not by big leaps and bounds preferring instead to build it up with 1,000 little bureaucratic increases.