Does anyone seriously believe government regulation is less extensive and intrusive today than it was then?
Smaller-government conservatives have been taking hits lately from some surprising sources. Ross Douthat, who along with Bret Stephens is one of two of The New York Times more dependably conservative columnists , wrote last week about how traditional Republicans are stuck in the “old familiar conservatism” of the “forever-1979 consensus.
Regulation is harder to measure, but does anyone seriously believe government regulation is less extensive and intrusive today than it was then? In this country there is real doubt whether any large infrastructure project can get past either existing or proposed new regulatory clearances. In the U.S., the current economic boom is partly ascribed to the Trump administration’s reversal of Obama-era regulation.
And what of this instrument, government, which even Peggy Noonan would have take on painfully difficult and complex social problems such as young men turning to nihilism and older men to opioids? Will a 2020s’ “Opioids Czar” really succeed where the 1980s’ “Drug Czar” failed?
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