{"id":27255,"date":"2014-08-07T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27255"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:52:13","slug":"lets-say-ron-paul-is-nirvana-then-rand-paul-hes-pearl-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/08\/07\/lets-say-ron-paul-is-nirvana-then-rand-paul-hes-pearl-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let&#8217;s say Ron Paul is Nirvana &#8230; Then Rand Paul \u2014 he&#8217;s Pearl Jam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican politicians as bands? In the <em>New York Times<\/em>? Fascinating. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/07\/new-york-times-magazine-has-the-libertar\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Welch<\/a> responding to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> Magazine has just published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/10\/magazine\/has-the-libertarian-moment-finally-arrived.html\" target=\"_blank\">6,600-word exploration<\/a> of, essentially, whether, Nick Gillespie is right when he says &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/08\/20\/can-we-start-talking-about-the-libertari\" target=\"_blank\">The libertarian moment is now<\/a>.&#8221; Writer Robert Draper, author of the terrific 1991 book <em>Rolling Stone Magazine: An Uncensored History<\/em>, and more recently <em>When the Tea Party Came to Town<\/em>, takes an entertaining tour through various antechambers of the libertarian movement, from <em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s gin-swilling D.C. headquarters, through the Free State Project&#8217;s anarchic PorcFest, to the offices of Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), in search of ever-elusive answers about what these libertarians want, how\/if they plan to use two-party system to get there, and whether 2016 will be the presidential cycle when the burgeoning libertarianism of the millennial generation will produce a political realignment.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll come for the Kennedy Ron Paul\/Nirvana quote, stay for the Nick Gillespie\/Lou Reed comparison, savor David Frum&#8217;s delicious contempt, and be left rooting for a clarifying Rand Paul\/Hillary Clinton showdown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican politicians as bands? In the New York Times? Fascinating. Here&#8217;s Matt Welch responding to the article: The New York Times Magazine has just published a 6,600-word exploration of, essentially, whether, Nick Gillespie is right when he says &#8220;The libertarian moment is now.&#8221; Writer Robert Draper, author of the terrific 1991 book Rolling Stone Magazine: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,53,13],"tags":[550,517],"class_list":["post-27255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-libertarianism","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-75B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27256,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27255\/revisions\/27256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}