From 'Affordability' to Antitrust: The Left Fantasizes About Bringing Back Big Government
From 'Affordability' to Antitrust: The Left Fantasizes About Bringing Back Big Government Gil Gutknecht | 10:28 PM on August 18, 2026 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File This year’s 250th birthday celebrations should have reminded us that Americans are a people with a government and not the other way around.Big government is a fearful master. In one of his State of the Union speeches, President Bill Clinton famously said, “The era of big government is over.” Today’s leftists never got that message.
- ▪From 'Affordability' to Antitrust: The Left Fantasizes About Bringing Back Big Government Gil Gutknecht | 10:28 PM on August 18, 2026 AP Photo/J.
- ▪Scott Applewhite, File This year’s 250th birthday celebrations should have reminded us that Americans are a people with a government and not the other way around.Big government is a fearful master.
- ▪In one of his State of the Union speeches, President Bill Clinton famously said, “The era of big government is over.” Today’s leftists never got that message.
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From 'Affordability' to Antitrust: The Left Fantasizes About Bringing Back Big Government Gil Gutknecht | 10:28 PM on August 18, 2026 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File This year’s 250th birthday celebrations should have reminded us that Americans are a people with a government and not the other way around.Big government is a fearful master. In one of his State of the Union speeches, President Bill Clinton famously said, “The era of big government is over.” Today’s leftists never got that message. They love big government, almost as much as they despise President Donald Trump. They call him an authoritarian.
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