President Donald Trump and his gang have always appealed much more to the authoritarian wing of the American conservative coalition than to the libertarian wing. He talks as good a game on “freedom” as any other Republican — freedom of speech on university campuses has been a major preoccupation, for example — but many doctrinaire libertarians can’t stand the sight of him. His obvious affinity for “strong man” leaders like Vladimir Putin and the most generous Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Al-Thani understandably rankles.