When cable news channels announced the results of the 2016 election, for the most part, they displayed the vote totals for the two major party candidates side-by-side: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. They simply left out the Libertarian Party ticket, which was led by Gary Johnson. It was as if Gary Johnson didn’t exist.
In a normal election year, that wouldn’t be a very notable omission. Outside of Ross Perot’s run in 1992, third-party candidates don’t exactly put up very big numbers on Election Night, so they’re not worth talking about. That’s been especially true for Libertarian Party candidates, who are mostly known for taking off their shirts at conventions and debating the merits of driver’s licenses.
But in 2016, it was a very different story. Libertarians had their best-ever showing in a presidential race, racking up nearly four-and-a-half million votes. In…
