Principled Pragmatism
Everyone should have principles, a guiding morality and a vision of how life should be. Most people will have a long list of principles, which are ordinal and fluid; no one values kindness 3 and safety 4; a person values kindness and safety and sometimes the one wins out and sometimes the other, with no contradiction. Principles are personal; die gedanken sind frei, as the Germans said in the 30s. Government can either align with principles of the majority, or, more commonly, on each point align with a minority, contradict a minority, and be indifferent to the majority.
The guiding principle of the Libertarian Party is Voluntarism; the idea that force should not be used to achieve political goals; this is literally an affirmation that every member of the national party has made. Everything else flows from that: their stance on public works, public health, war... it's all from voluntarism. So, when a person says they are a libertarian, it is a fair bet they are for no foreign wars, no welfare state, no taxes, and no alphabet agency (pick one, they are against it if you ask).
Pragmatism, of course, is the idea that you take what you can get as you go, with an end goal. For libertarians, this means stopping each war as quickly as possible, downsizing each federal overreach, blockading federal stuff at the state level, rolling back state level stuff, and other peaceful tactics. The goal is reaching that principled destination; pragmatism means working with whoever we need to to make each step possible.
As an example, let's talk education. Libertarian Principle demands no interference from the government in education, in any way, shape or form. No truancy laws, no limits on who can teach, no laws about what to teach or not teach. No taxes collected for it, no government money distributed for it. Of course this is not what we have. So pragmatism comes in. Starve the supply side with anti-tax coalitions. Starve the control side with state level blocking of federal mandates. Let children get out of the system as easily and completely as possible by working with Home Education lobbies, whether religious or secular. Even support vouchers, if they come with no strings attached. Every step toward freedom is a win.
If this sounds like a plan - if this sounds like the kind of people you want to work with, I encourage you to join the libertarian party.