Ron Paul Concerned About Trump’s ‘Iron-Fisted’ Promise to ‘Take Charge and Take Over’

When Donald Trump is not making incendiary blanket statements about Mexican immigrants, the 2016 plutocrat’s campaign is about telling people how rich he is and how he expects to be the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.”

Former presidential candidate Ron Paul does not share Trump’s confidence, telling Newsmax on Thursday that Trump’s aggression and “take charge and take over” promises will inevitably boil down to a relatively unchanged economic system. When Ed Berlinger asked Paul about whether Trump’s actions are hurting the GOP, Paul voiced his concerns that for all of Trump’s posturing as a business innovator and job employer, only the free market and collective individual effects can balance out the country’s economic state.

“What I fear is that he may be tapping into something in a sentiment,” Paul said. “People may love this aggressive personality that’s going to take charge.That worries me… the thing that concerns me is that it’s sort of like ‘take charge and take over’ and we’ve had too much government taking charge and taking over.”

Paul then pointed to the similarities between Trump’s economic statements and the government’s approach, saying “we don’t need somebody with an iron fist to come in and say ‘It’ll be done my way.'”

“I don’t think anybody should be running the economy and that’s the whole fallacy of our last hundred years,” Paul said. He went on to say that even though Trump could create jobs by remaining in control of his business empire, the libertarian approach suggests that using the government to take control in any capacity would restrain the free market.

“That’s the wonderful thing about libertarianism,” Paul says. “It doesn’t have to make that final decision of what people should do.”

You can watch Paul’s interview here, via Newsmax:

[h/t Washington Examiner]
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