Speaking at a rally for Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli on Monday, former congressman and libertarian darling Ron Paul claimed to see "nullification" of federal law by the states in the near future.

According to Politico, Paul told a crowd of Cuccinelli supporters that "I’ve been working on the assumption that nullification is going to come. It’s going to be a de facto nullification. It’s ugly, but pretty soon things are going to get so bad that we’re just going to ignore the feds and live our own lives in our own states."

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Beyond promoting nullification, the 19th century doctrine, popular in the antebellum South, which held that states had the right to invalidate any federal law they deem unconstitutional, Paul urged Cuccinelli's followers to "stand up to the authoritarians."

"They're dictators," Paul said.

Paul also railed against Obamacare, calling its funding mechanisms "evil" and arguing they'll "create class warfare, generational warfare."

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