The Second World War was the beginning of the Administrative State, The last TV commenter who understood this was David Brinkley, whose book, “Washington Goes to War” describes the bureaucratic feeding frenzy that took place in 1942.

The Socialists know that the left aways needs the totalitarian club to make Socialism work, even for a short time. Then the money runs out.

What a pretty portrait of the Left this is – the governor’s theoretical, philosophical, and cost-free “commitment” to the project will be enough to keep his blue state on his side, despite not just a LACK of results but actual BAD results. Whereas anyone who really DID something useful would be decried as a stinking capitalist if s/he didn’t mouth the proper shibboleths.

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff said the recent Green New Deal resolution isn’t about giving more power to government — it’s about “redistributing power to workers.”
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Republicans derided the resolution as “socialist,” but the media seemed to rally around Ocasio-Cortez after her office botched the initial rollout of the Green New Deal.
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Brooks argued in a Monday column that, if passed, the Green New Deal “would definitely represent the greatest centralization of power in the hands of the Washington elite in our history.”

Green New Deal supporters put their “faith in the guiding wisdom of the political elite,” which rarely works out, Brooks wrote.

The columnist also poked fun at the botched rollout of the Green New Deal.

“In an alienated America, efforts to decentralize power are more effective and realistic than efforts to concentrate it in the Washington elite,” Brooks wrote. “The great paradox of progressive populism is that it leads to elitism in its purist form.”
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Chakrabarti, who spent the weekend doing damage control over the Green New Deal’s rollout, didn’t agree with Brooks’s characterization of his boss’s signature legislation.

“The reason the Federal Government is involved is it is the only force capable of providing the size and speed of investment necessary to create such a transformative change in the time required,” Chakrabarti tweeted before recommending Brooks read a list of anti-capitalist books.

If you’ve lost David Brooks….