The party has always been useless, but libertarian thinkers of the past have been among the best economists and opponents of totalitarian government. The problem is that they're ignorant about the importance of culture in promoting liberty, and many become too ideologically rigid to recognize existential collectivist attacks on their existence...like mass immigration, etc.

The whole "libertarians going woke" thing is something different entirely though...that's straight-up leftist subversion. What it means, is that most of the sane libertarians have abandoned the Libertarian Party to the degenerates and now count themselves among the pedes and American Patriots.