It is chilling when you consider the time and the bad part about it is that we can 'trump' their 'string of abuses' by multiples. Chief among them and a result of numerous Democrat administrations and congresses is the killing of the motor of our nation - free enterprise.
Each Dem administration establishes another plank in the socialist platform - it started before FDR but FDR did the most damage because of the economic collaspes that intervention caused. LBJ added with the Great Society, Carter with the Dept of Energy (Ecology) and CRA (low income loans), Clinton enlarged all those that had come before and added a few of his own.
All Republican administrations have been able to do is cut taxes during their tenure, never rolling back any of the socialism with the possible exception of cutting back on welfare in '94 but my guess is the outlays now outstrip the outlays then.
We had a chance to get rid of a lot of stuff - Dept. of Energy, Education, National Endowment for the Arts (think "p!$$ Christ), PBS, NPR, Wool/mohair subsidies, helium reserves from WWI, Selective Service and a whole bunch more. Most of those ideas were stopped by RINO house and senate chairman from getting to the floor for a vote.
With the current comrade will at least, get National Healthcare and some version of Kyoto accord on Global Warming and very likely a return to some gun control and higher taxes for producers. Who knows what else??? Another attack??
Deregulation under Reagan was a huge boost to Free Enterprise. Look at the airlines, and above all, look at the demise of Ma Bell. What was it other than a state supported monopoly? A very fine example of one, to be sure, but a state supported monopoly, nevertheless.