I disagree. Rand isn’t bright enough. His minions,,,maybe.
He’s been doing it for a couple of years now, I think it is mostly his own anti-conservative war.
Remember that he is a libertarian, and libertarians are at war with conservatism.
Paul wants his digs to endure, and to reverberate among the media and the left, to help them attack conservatives, he wants these attacks to stick.
When he panders to groups, look at how he reinforces their worst fears against conservatives and uses that groups language against us.