Posted in today’s American Thinker I wrote How Big Government Conservatism Paved the Way to More Liberalism

Excerpt:

All of these factions of the conservative movement saw the government as the tool of change.  They favored a big government and only wished to steer the machine in a different direction from the objectives of the liberal establishment.  Both share a sense of moral supremacy and a distrust of individual rights and choice.  Both establishments favored construction of a government that could serve the whims of the party in power.

But big government conservatives failed to look beyond their administrations.  Any power bestowed on a central government must be considered as if it were in the hands of their worst nightmare.

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