Unleash Rand Paul!

Rand Paul's 2016 strategy clearly isn't working. Time for a reboot.

Sen. Rand Paul
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Rand Paul has been running a strange, and underwhelming, campaign.

From the start, it had an explicit goal in mind: to take his father Ron's strong base of support in the GOP, but break the ceiling built by his father's orneriness and unwillingness to deviate even one iota from his libertarian orthodoxy, to not only win the nomination but reshape the Republican Party and, indeed, American politics and policy.

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His writing has appeared at Forbes, The Atlantic, First Things, Commentary Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, Quartz, and other places. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.