So says Douthat comma Ross (always been my nick for him, so I'm not going to change it now that he's at the House of Record).
Uh, that would be Teddy Roosevelt.
Why does that observation smell like snake-oil, suddenly?
SHADOW BOXING WITH 'BIG GOVERNMENT'
You'd think that America had gone socialist or communist, during and in the post-war period:
Under Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, liberals created a federal leviathan that taxes, regulates and redistributes across every walk of American life.
Who can understand what this refers to? The grand road system that was created as part of WPA? The FAA?
Just what is it that allows 'small government' folks to pretend that there is some there, there? The lack of detail makes the display look like a giant shadow boxing exercise.
