Sen. Rand Paul Criticizes Democrats, Says They Have ‘Authoritarian Impulse’

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Jul 16, 2021

Sen. Rand Paul from Kentucky sat down for a conversation on Newsmax where he stated that Democrats today have an “authoritarian impulse” running through them that makes them want to impose mask mandates, which he went on to say shows an “elitism that people aren’t smart enough to make their own decisions.”

Paul went on to comment on Newsmax’s “National Report” program that his legislation to repeal travel mask mandates will “ultimately be assigned to a committee and the Democrats are in charge. So far, we’ve had at least one vote in the Senate and it came down on party lines. Republicans voted to repeal the mandate, all the Democrats voted to keep it. Think that there’s an authoritarian impulse in the Democrat Party, that … they know better, sort of this elitism that people aren’t smart enough to make their own decisions, that the government needs to make decisions for you as far as your medical care.”

He then stated that “if you look at the evidence, the evidence is pretty strong that airplanes are pretty safe. We didn’t have a mask mandate during the first surge, and people continued to fly. There really were not significant accounts of super-spreader events on planes. If you look at the filtration system on the planes, they’re 15-times better than your house and about five-times better than your average hospital.”

via Newsmax:

Paul said that “the thing is, when you look where COVID[-19] was spreading during the subsequent waves of COVID[-19], the most common place was in the house. And there was not a lot you can do as far as mandating people’s behavior in their house. So, I think it’s time to let freedom reign again. I think it is important that, when we look at this, that the science doesn’t show that the masks have done a great deal.”

The senator claimed that “some of the masks, like the cloth masks, don’t work at all because the virus is smaller than the particles in your mask. And so really, it’s a false sense of sort of security, people telling people to wear something that doesn’t work, and this is one of the lies that continues to be promulgated by Dr. [Anthony] Fauci.”

Sen. Paul has had more than a few verbal clashes with Fauci, who currently serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on the issue of safety recommendations made during the coronavirus pandemic and for his position on where the virus originated.