Jan 09 2025 9 mins 148
Conservatives and libertarians regularly name reducing the size of the state as their top priority but rarely consider the factors that drive the growth of government. For most champions of small government, institutional neutrality and the minimal exercise of state power are seen as metrics of success, but they rarely realize that those factors can actually make expansion of the state inevitable. While it is counterintuitive to modern proponents of small government, vigorous state action in favor of defending a unified culture is far more likely to protect liberty than policies like open borders and neutral institutions.
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