There is no Paul phenom, there is however Paul bull s#it.
Paul is a fraud.
Paul is the tar baby used by the GOP to make sure the beltway preferred candidate doesn’t have to face a conservative.
He’ll fade after Iowa but cling like a rectal leech till the bitter end.
I really didn’t get the whole Paul phenomenon until I recently ran into a friend of a friend. This guy (unemployed pothead liberal) explained that a large part of Paul’s base are young drug users (single issue voters). The fanatical adoration of Paul finally makes sense to me.