Commentary

ObamaCare Shatters Progressive Dreams

By Troy Senik
Thursday, October 17 2013

Since the rise of the Progressive movement over a century ago, liberalism has been enchanted by the idea of enlightened administration — of beneficent, all-knowing bureaucrats who could steer public policy and shape it towards the public good, usually without the messy restraints of democracy or constitutional strictures. Edward Mandell House, the right hand of President Woodrow Wilson (himself the foremost apostle of this approach) even published a novel in 1912, Phillip Dru: Administrator, featuring a protagonist who overthrows the federal government, abolishes the Constitution and becomes…

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