The approach of those pushing for big government has always been to “never let a serious crisis go to waste,” as Democratic operative Rahm Emanuel famously put it. “[It is] an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”

While serious indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic was exploited by proponents of big government in exactly this manner. It was used to usher in unprecedented restrictions on individual freedom, mind-boggling levels of government spending, and an expansion of the welfare state that would make FDR blush.

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