Challenge: Make Ron Paul a major figure in the New Left

Have Ron Paul at some time hook up with Social Credit, a populist anti-banking ideology that would appeal to his hostility to the Federal Reserve, but which has also proven itself to be remarkably malleable in its positions and alliances.

Social Credit parties have run the gamut from outright pro-business, with nary a hint of economic populism, as in Alberta under Ernest Manning, to allies of the far-left, as in New Zealand. If Ron Paul had joined an economically orthodox(ie. Douglasite) Social Credit party at some point, and they later joined forces with the the left(not entirely far fetched, since both Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan have been standard bearers for the Green Party), he might adopt some of the left-wing positions of his allies.

Problem: Ron Paul already appeals to the same sort of people that Social Credit appeals to, ie. the monetary reform/anti-globalism crowd. In fact, I'd be surprised if the few remaining American devotees of Major Douglas weren't supporting Paul already. So my scenario might be pretty much redundant with OTL, in which Paul has not moved to anything that can credibly be called the far left. Maybe it would require a stronger American Social Credit movement, one which had an interest in seeking out partnerships left-wing tendencies.

New Zealand Democratic Party For Social Credit
 
Libertad wrote:

Murray Rothbard toyed with the idea of alliance with the New Left during the 60's.

That's interesting, because there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that it was Rothbard's influence, via Lew Rockwell, that was responsible for all that racist wackjobbery in the infamous Ron Paul newsletters.

Reason Magazine

Warning: That link has been messing with my computer slightly, the page freezes up for a bit etc.
 
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