Within living memory, our federal government operated more or less within the bounds our founders imagined. There had been steady government creep since at least the First World War, but the checks and balances the framers built into the very clockwork of government operations were enough to keep the D.C. elites — always so thirsty for more power, always so certain that their own wisdom should override that of the individual in his state and home — within some sort of limits.
In those nearly forgotten days, you could pretty much read the paper, shake your head at the gormless stupidity of the elite, and go about your business with some certainty that, as idiotic as these self-aggrandizing clowns were, they couldn’t do too much damage.
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