Well, he beat Benito in Michigan—and the Second Coming of Reagan, too. Even the Los Angeles Times is forced to sit up and take notice.

Even if the Paul campaign winds up as a blip on the electoral screen, a mere footnote in the long history of the GOP’s decline and fall, it will have been worth it—after all, he humiliated that would-be tyrant in search of a balcony. And that made all the difference.