What was there to gain?

big rand supporter, but there was something on my mind

for conceding to the GOP, what did rand gain?

from the time he endorsed Romney in 2012, rand has been increasingly willing to work with the GOP establishment that really doesn't want his core policies and message

neither the establishment nor the base are even remotely interested, and those that were flipped to authoritarians like trump or the other anti-establishment grandpa

what's the smartest thing him and the libertarian block (massie, amash, lee) can do in a party that despises them?

if we lose, and someone like Trump wins the nomination, where can we as libertarians go from here? What has Rand's pragmatism gotten him that his fathers fortitude couldn't?