Your story's really vague. Maybe your friend was a pure sociopath, like most power-seeking politicians. Maybe you're 100% full of shit, and think every libertarian has a duty to lose, if he's "a real anarchist." You've not given anyone enough information for them to have an opinion on the situation. You've not even given them enough information to identify a pattern from reality. Your assessment might be right, it might be wrong. ...I don't have enough information to know, and anyone who thinks they do is full of shit, and "siding with their kneejerk reaction" or "engaging in confirmation bias."