uh let me remind you they are an off shoot of Libertarians , me . President Thomas Jefferson was the founder of the American Libertarian party.
That's a mis-statement so profound and incorrect that it begins to look like intentionally sabotaging our political history for the sake of some current political fiction.
Well that's going to come as a real shock to the people who voted for him on the Democratic-Republican party. That was a party created in opposition to the Federalist party - specifically, to the Washington administration's fiscal policies and pro-British foreign policy. Organized by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson with the aid of George Clinton* and Aaron Burr, the Democratic-Republicans brought together former Antifederalists and moderate Federalists. They wanted weaker federal government, with most power assigned to the states, an economic policy favoring agriculture, and a foreign policy favoring the French Revolution. They would later drop the "Republican" part of the name and run as plain old Democrats.
The fact of the matter, where the psudo Tea Party** views themselves as some sort of strict Constitutional supporters, Jefferson himself was not a big supporter the Federal Constitution at all.
* - The then Governor of New York, not the George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic.
** - Not a real political party
