My friend, Daniel Harmon, attended the Rally for the Republic in Minneapolis.  Noting the very diverse crowd of 10,000 there, he says:

Of course, everyone subscribes to Paul’s strict constitutional philosophy in varying degrees. But he doesn’t care that you don’t believe 100% in some 30-point program. He just says it as he sees it and lets you buy into whatever you want. And precisely because of that, these people see him as a principled political leader, a maverick fighting for the freedom that America now largely takes for granted.

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