I just watched the first Republican debate without a liberty candidate since 2008
2016 has been, for libertarians, basically Rand Paul verses every other Republican—and his opponents are all awful.
Republicans being awful is not new. Republican debates without a libertarian to inject some sanity into the discussion is something we haven’t had to endure for three elections in a row.
This reality slapped me in the face hard last night.
Reason’s Robby Soave took the words out of my mouth on Friday when he said of the Rand-less debate “It’s a sad stage without him”:
"Paul’s absence from the stage deprived the spectacle of any semblance of sanity.
While many libertarians—including many of my colleagues at Reason—have dinged Paul for seeming at times insufficiently committed to the cause and too eager to make in-roads with big government conservatives, his faults appear incredibly small when set against the horrors of a Paul-less GOP slate
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