{"id":54670,"date":"2025-08-19T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=54670"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:04:54","slug":"ron-paul-on-unilateral-tariffs-endless-wars-and-the-march-toward-authoritarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/19\/ron-paul-on-unilateral-tariffs-endless-wars-and-the-march-toward-authoritarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on Unilateral Tariffs, Endless Wars, and the March Toward Authoritarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T41NFWCjwd8\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s appetite for power is growing \u2014 and the results are dangerous. From unilateral tariffs that punish American families, to endless wars launched without congressional approval, to the steady march toward authoritarian \u201cclean-ups\u201d in D.C., liberty is under assault. In this episode, Ron breaks down how economic meddling, foreign entanglements, and unchecked executive power are eroding the Constitution and concentrating authority where it doesn\u2019t belong.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eByi9iQlaLE?si=JB4QrSBA4JPbxc0A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s\u00a0Ron Paul Liberty Report: Washington\u2019s appetite for power is growing \u2014 and the results are dangerous. From unilateral tariffs that punish American families, to endless wars launched without congressional approval, to the steady march toward authoritarian \u201cclean-ups\u201d in D.C., liberty is under assault. In this episode, Ron breaks down how economic meddling, foreign entanglements, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[768],"class_list":["post-54670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54675,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54670\/revisions\/54675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54670"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}