Buffett, Warren
1930–

Buffett's documented public values: progressive taxation, long-term-over-short-term capitalism, fierce critic of stock buybacks and excessive executive compensation, anti-inheritance-dynasty, pro-free-trade, pro-banking-regulation, anti-crypto, deeply institutionalist, and Midwestern civility. Cornyn matches Buffett substantially better than Paxton on free trade (Buffett is fiercely anti-tariff, and Cornyn's measured anti-tariff posture is much closer than Paxton's MAGA alignment), on institutionalism, and on personal-conduct concerns Buffett would treat as disqualifying for any Berkshire executive. Both lose on Buffett's progressive-taxation framework. Buffett's institutionalism and concern about American institutional decline make him much more skeptical of the Trump-Paxton mode than of Cornyn's traditional Republican framework.