Every Republican in Congress should be required to watch Sen. Rand Paul’s brief remarks at President Trump’s rally Monday night. They should all watch it again and again.

In the span of two minutes, Paul said everything that needs to be said about the Democrats’ impeachment effort.

He called on congressional Republicans to defend the president, he leaned into the attack on the corruption of the Bidens, and he hit the national media for refusing to publish the name of the career government employee who started the whole farce, otherwise referred to as “the whistleblower.”

“We also now know the name of the whistleblower,” said Paul. “I say tonight to the media, do your job and print his name.”

If only Paul had just said the name himself — nothing is stopping him, if he does in fact know the guy's name.

There was naturally a meltdown among liberals, who were horrified that a Republican might actually fight for the leader of his party and confront this ridiculous attempt to remove Trump from office. Doesn’t Rand know that there’s an impeachment going on and that he’s supposed to be hiding under his chair right now?

CNN liberal Keith Boykin tweeted, “Rand Paul should be ashamed of himself, but he’s not because he’s chosen blind loyalty to the president over patriotism to his country.” (True “patriotism” would be for Paul to lay down and cede power to Democrats, duh.)

National Journal's Josh Kraushaar, bowing to the media myth that the “whistleblower” is legally entitled to anonymity, said it was “deeply irresponsible” for Paul to ask that the name be published. Claire McCaskill, a former Democratic senator and now an MSNBC “analyst,” said the next day that Paul is “just kind of an idiot about stuff.”

Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire said on MSNBC it “would be illegal” to put out the name. Note that none of this is true — government whistleblowers have no legal right to anonymity.

CNN’s Pamela Brown repeated the lie that “the whistleblower is legally allowed to remain anonymous” and her colleague Anderson Cooper dutifully replied, "Right, the whistleblower is legally allowed to remain anonymous.”

There is no law that secures the bureaucrat any right to anonymity. If there were, a lot of people would be in legal jeopardy at this very moment because a lot of people, including reporters at the New York Times, know exactly who it is. Why aren’t any of them being prosecuted if this is a legal issue? Because it’s not.

Some liberals are also pretending this is a matter of protecting the safety of the bureaucrat. Where is the evidence of that? Stefan Halper covertly worked with the FBI to spy on the Trump 2016 campaign. His identity was eventually reported by multiple major news outlets, including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine. He’s still alive and kicking — just fine, in fact, last I heard.

Valerie Plame was a CIA employee. When her identity was published, she was unfortunately killed.

Just kidding! She was on CNN this week. She's running for Congress.

Rand Paul did a service to the country with his rallying cry. Every Republican should follow his lead.