John M. Cobin is a
libertarian madman and social commentator.
As a matter of fact, Cobin is only borderline qualified for an entry in this
encyclopedia on the grounds that he renounced his American citizenship in 2015,
settling in Chile, where he currently resides – in jail, after having
opened fire at protesters
during the Chilean social unrest of 2019 in Reñaca, injuring several. Before
that, however, he ran (and lost) for Congress in South Carolina’s 4th
congressional district (in 2006), representing the
Libertarian party.
Cobin is, however, best known for being one of the
architects behind Galt’s Gulch, Chile,
which was supposed to become
a libertarian paradise
and which completely unsurprisingly turned into a fraud-riddled disaster.
Beyond that, Cobin is known for his far-right associations and for being a
Pinochet apologist, which is par for the course for American-style,
self-declared libertarianism.
Diagnosis: And that’s all we can be
bothered to say about John M. Cobin. Wingnut nutter.
