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Ron Paul

US Representative from Texas, 1997 to 2013

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A physician and congressman who ran for president three times as a libertarian, championing sound money, civil liberties and a non-interventionist foreign policy.

Ron Paul sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly free market on economy, strongly non-interventionist on interventionism and strongly libertarian on liberty and authority.

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Where Ron Paul sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Ron Paul

Rand Paul US Senator from Kentucky, 2011 to present99%Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 199598%Friedrich Hayek Austrian-British economist and philosopher, 1899 to 199287%Edward Snowden American whistleblower and former intelligence contractor86%Gary Johnson Governor of New Mexico, 1995 to 200386%Milton Friedman American economist, 1912 to 200683%Ludwig von Mises Austrian economist, 1881 to 197383%Liu Xiaobo Chinese writer and Nobel laureate, 1955 to 201781%

People furthest from Ron Paul

Joseph Stalin Soviet leader, 1920s to 19532%Kim Jong Un Supreme Leader of North Korea, 2011 to present2%Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17152%Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader of Iran, 2026 to present3%

Political views closest to Ron Paul

PaleolibertarianismMixes free-market libertarianism with cultural traditionalism and localism.93%Anarcho-capitalismAbolishes the state in favor of private property, voluntary contracts and competing…90%Austrian schoolAn economic tradition that stresses individual choice, sound money and skepticism about…90%Non-interventionismAvoids foreign wars and entangling alliances while trading freely with all.89%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.