Politics

Inside the World of Rand Paul Swag

‘Swag as in Swagger’

If the Ready for Hillary PAC has dog shirts, why can’t Rand Paul? That’s the thinking of the founder of Rand Paul Swag—who first set out to ‘make liberty sexy’ with Papa Ron.

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In 2008, Shepard Fairey created what The New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl called “the most efficacious American political illustration since ‘Uncle Sam Wants You,’” the depiction of then-Sen.

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