Can they find common ground through the Constitution?
Preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution, especially its Bill of Rights, provides ample grounds for unity between libertarians and most conservatives. Many of our civil liberties — dear to libertarians and conservatives both — are under assault by progressive forces.
There is much to collaborate on: preserving freedom of speech, and of the press, and of the free exercise of religion; honoring the right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances; not infringing the right to keep and bear arms; rehabilitation the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonably searches and seizures; the right not to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Even, casting the net a bit wider, the classical gold standard and the repeal of the Estate tax!
They’d better.
You don’t have to fight the exact same fight over the Estate/Death Tax.
Eliminate the Gift Tax instead via a clause tucked into somewhere. There’s virtually no money raised by the Gift Tax (and thus, an easier fight). But eliminating it would de facto gut the Death Tax.
“I give the farm to Joey, except I retain the right to live here.”
If you do end up in an argument over it, you can (if you weren’t the Stupid Party) shape a very different discussion. “I’m giving poor John here a chance, and the government wants its 40%.” I’m voluntarily spreading the wealth, and you’re shafting me. And “I hear corporations are evil, I’m just trying to keep it a local, family owned not-much-profit.”
That is a good way to put it.
Libertarians defend the Bill of Rights? Who knew? The Libertarians I know wish to eviscerate the freedom of religion clause.