Victor Davis Hanson has a terrific post on the ugly, authoritarian, undemocratic crusade to drive America into a thoroughly politicized welfare state.

Many good lines in the piece. Here’s my favorite: “The most blatant cynicism in recent American political history — a man who ran as a bipartisan who is the most partisan we’ve seen, a healer whose even flippant comments are designed to offend, a statist who assumes that the sheared sheep cannot stampede somewhere else, a reformer who trusts his honey-laced rhetoric can disguise Daley-style corruption.”

Read the whole thing!