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I just call them “Right-wing statists.” The fact that the creeps insist on referring to themselves as “libertarians” has exactly as much effect on me as the fact that Stalinists insisted on describing themselves as democrats (indeed, as the only defenders of true democracy).

If you really need a term, Kevin Carson coined the term “vulgar libertarianism” a while back to describe unprincipled apologetics for corporate interest posing as libertarianism. It could reasonably be expanded to apply a bit more broadly so as to include Presidential royalists who imagine that they are libertarians by dint of their mild opposition to government welfare programs.