Opinion: Rand Paul's convenient U-turn on protests
As Canadian trucker protests against Covid-19 mandates continued into another week, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he hoped the convoy would move south to "clog" the streets of American cities.
With his vocal stance against Covid-19 restrictions, Paul's support of the cause isn't surprising. But his sudden encouragement of civil disobedience is hypocritical politics at its best as he apparently roots for a protest that could cause higher inflation, harming his political opponents alongside everyday Americans.
This is the same Republican senator who has criticized Black Lives Matter activists, including after they disrupted a 2015 Bernie Sanders rally. In August 2020, when a group of BLM protesters yelled at Paul to acknowledge the Louisville police killing of Breonna Taylor, Paul responded by calling the activists an "angry ... crazed mob."
But if truck drivers and others were to descend upon American cities and disrupt daily life in protest of Covid-related mandates? Paul is "all for it."
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Rand Paul is a Putin fluffer.
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Rand Paul to attend another 'neighborhood coffee klatch' so that he can perhaps finally have some sense knocked into him!
