From WSJopinion: Wars, depressions, public-health emergencies lead to bigger government, more rules, more-onerous regulations, writes gerardtbaker. You can see the pattern again as we approach the second anniversary of the pandemic.
The rising fear among American conservatives since the early days of the Covid pandemic has been that the nation would emerge from the crisis significantly less free.
It’s an unease rooted in the historic reality of one of the most powerful laws of human governance: the ratchet effect. Once introduced, rules almost always get more expansive, seldom more limited. Taxes levied for a temporary exigency become perpetual obligations. Government agencies built to administer some specific function are absorbed into the permanent bureaucracy.
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