What's striking about the Rand Paul/Alex Jones interview is how much in agreement the two men seem, and it's more than that - it's obvious they think they're in the same movement.

Rand Paul has been widely cast as a libertarian but there's considerable evidence tying him to another tendency - theocratic Christian nationalism, and specifically Christian Reconstructionism.

As my story Rand Paul Keynoted 2009 ‘Biblical Law’ Constitution Party Rally detailed, In April of 2009 Ran Paul was the featured speaker for a Minnesota Constitution Party rally.

The Constitution Party was originally founded, as The U.S. Taxpayers Party, by Howard Phillips, who called Christian Reconstructionism founder R.J. Rushdoony "my wise counselor."

Rushdoony's Chalcedon Foundation was the central institutional locus for the budding Christian Reconstructionist movement, and in 1989, as Frederick Clarskon's Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Decmocracy (1997, Common Courage Press) details,

"In 1989, [Howard] Phillips authored a fundraising letter soliciting $1,000 donors for the Chalcedon Foundation in which he wrote "Each of us who has read The Institutes of Biblical Law... has been uniquely privileged. God has blessed us with the opportunity for exposure to the insights and teachings of a great theologian and servant... I have no doubt that he will be ever after regarded as one of the most significant figures in the history of Christian thought and advocacy."

Rousas Rushdoony gave a speech at the 1992 inaugural event launching the new Taxpayers Party, later to become The Constitution Party. Rushdoony advocated executing homosexuals by stoning, wanted to reimpose the institution of slavery, and maintained that the Sun rotated around the Earth. He was a Holocaust denier, a racist, a creationist, and claimed that African-American slaves were lucky.

In 2008 Rand Paul's father, U.S. Texas Congressman Ron Paul, endorsed the Constitution Party candidate for president and even, according to Religion Dispatches' Sarah Posner, spoke at a 2009 Constitution Party fundraiser. As my Rand Paul Keynoted 2009 ‘Biblical Law’ Constitution Party Rally story notes, in Rand Paul's July 23 Alex Jones Show appearance Rand Paul told Jones that his political beliefs were close to identical to his father's.

I'd guess there's more to this story than I've had time for, but meanwhile, here's an audio excerpt from Rand Paul's April 23, 2009 Alex Jones appearance,

And here's a partial transcript,