From TV to MLB, a field day for petty tyrants
In his famous speech to the 1964 Republican National Convention, Barry Goldwater denounced "those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen." He was referring to the advocates of the Great Society, who wanted to empower the federal government toward abolishing poverty and institutional racism. Whatever else was wrong with the Johnson presidency, those were at least noble goals. Forty years later, our political class still believes in limitlessly expanding the involvement of government in the private lives of citizens. The difference is that today, the only discernible object of such...
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