The Whitesplaining Rand Paul

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So Rand Paul went to Howard University yesterday to speak to the student body in what was billed as an outreach to minority and young voters. The GOP has gotten alot of press since November making it very plain that the structural problem with their party is its lack of appeal to minority and young voters. Rand Paul apparently sees himself as helping to fix this problem -- first by actually going to the audience the GOP needs to start engaging, and then relying on the media to brand this as a libertarian outreach. The latter is important because it makes Paul look like a leader in a rebranding effort -- making the GOP more libertarian -- while still pursuing the same GOP goals on behalf of corporations and rich people. And trying to call those goals "freedom" and "opportunity".