Sen. Josh Hawley is perhaps the Senate GOP’s biggest contrarian.

A strong social conservative and populist, the Missouri Republican has repeatedly attempted to cast aside the GOP’s long-espoused (if not enforced) commitment to limit government, with nanny state proposals on issues such as social media regulation. Hawley’s iconoclastic fondness for sweeping state solutions is, unsurprisingly, manifesting itself in his response to the coronavirus crisis gripping the country — namely, the economic interventions he called for this week.