While I appreciate his moments of clarity on issues like the drug war (although, let's be real - the libertarian position of just letting everyone out of jail is a bad idea when you have a ruined economy and a prison system that makes people more dangerous on average than when they entered it), foreign policy, and the security state, Rand Paul is on the whole a dangerous reactionary, moreso because he has the ability to coat it in ways that make his ideology palatable to young people and others who might naturally otherwise drift to the left.