I follow this guy on u-toob and like a lot of what of what he says. Take note that he is more of a libertarian than conservative so every so often he reverts to PC nonsense.
Statism vs Anarchism is more of a spectrum, with one end being total government control of every aspect of people’s lives, and at the other end, there being no government at all.
On the “statist” part of the spectrum, we have people whose response to every issue is to propose yet another government program. On the other half of the spectrum, we have “minarchists”(minimal government) proposing ways to reduce government involvement and increase private involvement.
I regard myself as a “minarchist”. There are lots of government activities which our society would be better off without. The problem with trying to get rid of government activities, is that the people who would benefit from not having them are disorganized and lukewarm about abolishing them, while the people who benefit from government are very organized and adamant about keeping them.
Never confuse a real anarchist who is against all government with the pretender who wears a black shirt with a red A scrawled on it. They may be antibusiness and just general glass-breaking asses, but all their plans seem to involve increasing the power of government. They love the “archy” too much to support anarchy.
Anarchists and libertarians throw the word "statist" around so much that event the Founding Fathers are "statists."
We are going to have a government of some sort whatever happens, so to anarchists and many libertarians, we are all "statists."