Dismantling the administrative state - deregulations, trying to kill off the Department of Education and other regulatory agencies (for example) have always been part and parcel to that lie.
To do so, there has to be an actual intrusive (controlling/authoritarian) central government that controls all aspects of life.
Look at the local level examples - Florida, Texas, other republican majority states.
Sure, they call it freedom but look at the laws they are instituting. All about controlling people - how they think, what they choose, etc..
Look at the energy fails in Texas.
Look at the insurance fails in Florida.
Look at education in both.
Fuck, look at everything in both states. Look at other republican majority states, and what they are passing/trying to pass.
It's not about freedom. It's not about saving/protecting children.
When Grover Norquist talked about shrinking government to drown it in a bathtub, he wasn't talking about small government producing greater freedom - though that was and is the lie.
He was talking about getting rid of the administrative state - with all of its regulations and oversights.
To do so places control of everything under the legislature, which can be gerrymandered and voter suppressed into creating a legislative body that only favors one party/one rule, with the same for the executive. And you have to control the courts to gainsay all the challenges to the point that sooner or later there are no more challenges because people are too afraid or what passes for law eventually bans all dissent/challenges.
And that means control. Control down to the minutiae of people's lives. That means concentrated power into the hands of the very few.
That means authoritarianism. And there's nothing free about that. There's nothing small about that.
It's complete and total intrusion.
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