Why Young Americans for Liberty is the most important conservative youth group today

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In 2011, mere minutes after libertarian icon Ron Paul won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, five-decade-old conservative youth activist group Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) unceremoniously kicked Paul off their advisory board on which he had served for many years.

Why? Because Paul was anti-war.

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