You are right - but I’ve always respected the Pauls’ side of things - even when Rand occasionally seemed to part ways with President Trump over foreign policy, various executive orders, etc..
The Constitution assigns the three branches co-equal power, which sets up a healthy but adversarial relationship between them.
Thus, in order to assert their constitutional roles, good conservative legislators like the Pauls must at times have healthy disagreements with Presidents, even good conservative ones like Reagan or Trump.
Absolutely... The thing that is consistent with both is that they are first and foremost tightwad misers when it comes to spending. It is a set in stone prerequisite for everything they do. and that is a good thing, even if it was to fight against spending for the patriot act which was seen as “giving the country away to terrorists” at the time.
Yet... Now it is being used against U.S. citizens as domestic terrorists. They were absolutely right and we should have listened rather than allow the fear propaganda overtake our emotions. They saw the bigger issue with this power in the long run and now here we are. It was not just the money, it was the constitutional rights that would be abused at some point.