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03-07-2013, 10:35 PM
Well, looky who isn't happy.
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History, however, does not cycle so neatly. Something more than ordinary partisanship is driving this switcheroo. The alienation and fear to which Rand Paul spoke in the Senate yesterday - the alienation and fear that shapes the political environment to which Marco Rubio and Mitch McConnell must adapt - comes from some deeper and more tangled place than disappointment at the outcome of an election.
Executive assassinations, hyperinflation leading to populist dictatorships, ordinary Americans protecting themselves by launching insurgencies against the state - these are themes of Rand Paul's politics, now endorsed by his Republican Senate colleagues. Out of what doom-haunted imagination are such dark fantasies born? The Republican party used to be the party more serious about defending America. Now it provides a home to those more doubtful that America is worth defending.
h ttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/07/why-you-shouldn-t-standwithrand.html
History, however, does not cycle so neatly. Something more than ordinary partisanship is driving this switcheroo. The alienation and fear to which Rand Paul spoke in the Senate yesterday - the alienation and fear that shapes the political environment to which Marco Rubio and Mitch McConnell must adapt - comes from some deeper and more tangled place than disappointment at the outcome of an election.
Executive assassinations, hyperinflation leading to populist dictatorships, ordinary Americans protecting themselves by launching insurgencies against the state - these are themes of Rand Paul's politics, now endorsed by his Republican Senate colleagues. Out of what doom-haunted imagination are such dark fantasies born? The Republican party used to be the party more serious about defending America. Now it provides a home to those more doubtful that America is worth defending.