Discrimination is an “inalienable” right: The 5 juiciest revelations in The New Yorker’s Rand Paul p

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Discrimination is an “inalienable” right: The 5 juiciest revelations in The New Yorker’s Rand Paul profile

From tensions with Ron Paul to his support for legalized discrimination, a new profile sheds an unflattering light

LUKE BRINKER

The forthcoming issue of The New Yorker features an engrossing 12,000-word deep dive into Sen. Rand Paul’s bid to take his libertarian conservative message mainstream ahead of a potential 2016 run for the White House.

The profile, by the magazine’s Ryan Lizza, rehashes familiar territory – Ron Paul’s racist newsletters, the notorious “Aqua Buddha” incident, and Paul’s train wreck of an interview with Rachel Maddow on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But Lizza also unearths fascinating tidbits about Paul’s past and what may lie in store for the senator.

From political tensions between Paul and his father to his long track record of support for legalized discrimination, here are five key takeaways from the piece.

Paul vs. Paul?

While nobody ever thought Ron Paul stood a serious chance of winning the GOP nod in either 2008 or 2012, Rand Paul would be a real contender if he entered the field. That’s largely because while Ron Paul fancies himself an anti-politician – with a penchant for rhetoric that infuriated large segments of his own party – his son is less keen to alienate GOP factions he would need to win in a general election, including more hawkish members of the party.

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