The addlepated Time writer in Mitch’s link fumbles (emphasis added), “Party members I’ve met often speak of freedom as if it were a phantom limb: you’re born with it, but it gets taken from you by the bureaucratic violence…“

Well, not to put to fine a point on it, but YES. As I stated just last week, it is the concept of negative rights,

which are rights bestowed upon each individual equally by the Creator God and cannot, must not be taken from him by any government.

Or, as il miglior fabbro Thomas Jefferson put it,

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator [i.e., it is intrinsic within each individual from the moment of his creation] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ? That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ? That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., when government takes away those fundamental rights instead of protecting them], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.