Rand Paul is more like the Republican AOC. He’s the one guy who articulates the positions a lot of naïve Republucan voters actually want (i.e. the government should stop wasting money, and shouldn’t criminalize shit which doesn’t harm anyone else - but in the smug fascist “I’m not touching you” sense). He exists to give people the impression that the party isn’t a homogeneous constellation of blood-sucking neoconservatives, car dealership owners, and oil barons. It makes the libertarians think they have a future in the party, and that if they vote for the next 50 years “anti-interventionists” might actually be given a chance in the driver’s seat.
This role was a lot more convincing maybe 20 years ago. There was a strong libertarian backlash in the wake of the George Bush administration, “Global War on Terror,” PATRIOT Act, etc. Since then, all of those people have either become Anarchists, Communists, or Ancient Aliens hot couch guys. I guess 0.02% of them became successful entrepreneurs and still believe it.
Rand Paul is more like the Republican AOC. He’s the one guy who articulates the positions a lot of naïve Republucan voters actually want (i.e. the government should stop wasting money, and shouldn’t criminalize shit which doesn’t harm anyone else - but in the smug fascist “I’m not touching you” sense). He exists to give people the impression that the party isn’t a homogeneous constellation of blood-sucking neoconservatives, car dealership owners, and oil barons. It makes the libertarians think they have a future in the party, and that if they vote for the next 50 years “anti-interventionists” might actually be given a chance in the driver’s seat.
This role was a lot more convincing maybe 20 years ago. There was a strong libertarian backlash in the wake of the George Bush administration, “Global War on Terror,” PATRIOT Act, etc. Since then, all of those people have either become Anarchists, Communists, or Ancient Aliens hot couch guys. I guess 0.02% of them became successful entrepreneurs and still believe it.
Is that Rand Paul you’re describing? It sounds a lot more like Ron Paul.
edit: tho ron paul might have been more like republican bernie now that I think about it