Sometimes government expansion looks like the dangerous bulking-up of Big Brother. Sometimes it looks more niggling, merely petty interference by the nanny state.
President Joe Biden’s latest intrusions are seemingly of that pettifogging, prune-faced variety rather than apparently casting the shadow of tyranny. But the truth is that Nanny works for Big Brother, building his unwonted and unwanted authority incrementally, so the distinction between the two is more apparent than real. Both militate against freedom while pretending to improve our lives.
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