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THE LATEST: RFK Jr was just confirmed by the Finance Committee 14-13. Next we go to a senate floor vote!

The Trump Effect has rendered a major weapon in the Left’s arsenal impotent.

The old definitions no longer apply. This has left Deep State bureaucrats and Leftist politicians scrambling for a new identity.

For decades, the Left has worked hard to scramble traditional definitions so that freedom means licentiousness, and words like “boy” and “girl” can mean anything.

On the political front, libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul is backing Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

At first glance, this makes as much sense as a rabbit laying eggs at Easter. The Kennedy family is a Who’s Who of legendary liberals like JFK, RFK, and Ted Kennedy–the opposite of the libertarian call for small government.

Rand Paul is a big fan of RFK Jr. because RFK Jr. has an open mind that transcends labels. The scientific method requires open minds that can critically assess new information as it comes in.

This is the opposite of so-called scientists like Fauci who make up their minds before all the facts are in. Paul backs RFK Jr. because he is the opposite of Fauci.

No matter what you think about RFK Jr., he’s light years ahead of the status quo called the Deep State.

Liberals believe they know better than the citizens who elected them because, well, the citizens who elected them believe it as well.

Libertarians, on the other hand, put stock in the individual. This means the government must stay out of the way as much as possible.

Why would Rand Paul back a lifelong liberal like JFK Jr.?

One way to boil it down is economics.

Austrian Economics

Kurt Wallace recently interviewed libertarian-minded Tom Mullen on the Rand Paul Review podcast.

Mullen is a writer and podcaster at Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. He knows a lot about economics.

He also knows a thing or two about RFK Jr. and why some–not all–libertarians back him as head of HHS.

The interview was wide-ranging, beginning and ending with–at times complex–economics. Suffice it to say that any libertarian worth their salt is an adherent of Austrian Economics.

Simply put, Austrian Economics is all about how the individual assigns value to goods in the marketplace–not the government and not the means of production. This applies to health as much as it does economics–the individual comes first.

This flies in the face of the Leftist notion that the government, not the individual, knows what is best.

The recent resurgence of Austrian Economics is in large part due to the influence of Nobel-winning economist Friedrich August von Hayek and the influential Ludwig von Mises.

It’s also due to the average American getting sick and tired of a gaggle of incompetent bureaucrats and the politicians in their thrall making stupid decisions and imposing them on the citizens of this country.

The COVID-19 debacle is a glaring example. Vaccine and mask mandates. Shutting down schools and churches. Forcing people into a crippling isolation that impacted both young and old alike and can be felt to this day.

In reality, economics, public health, education, religious freedom, and just about everything else are not separate academic disciplines. They are parts of the whole called society.

Mullen, who has

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