And you get the Obama regime, argues Anthony Gregory in this sharp essay.

Here’s a sample paragraph. “The hypocrisy is more pronounced these days than usual. It makes one’s head spin. Are the  liberals for presidential wars again? Are the conservatives pretending to be against deficit spending once more? The left supports the TSA now and the right sees it as a police state imposition? When did that happen? And why does the left hate the banks for accepting the bailouts that most of them said were necessary to stop the economy from collapsing?”

Both the right-statists and left-statists wish to exploit our recurrent crises for political advantage, but unfortunately they always think the solution is yet more statism.