If I remember correctly she said something to the effect: the key or prerequisite to a totalitarian government is a large and unencumbered bureaucracy.
No doubt we have that when the rule of law is destroyed.
The Federal Government is very large, unaccountable if not tied to constitutional restraint.
There are serious consequences of allowing this.
The solution? DownSize DC! Eliminate entire Rogue, unaccountable, unconstitutional departments.
We can begin with the US Dept. of Education, including it’s SWAT teams. Then the EPA. Then we are just getting warmed up.
Can that happen? Not sure.
I will have to dig her book out of my library and see what I have forgotten that it contained. I might gain a better perspective by re-reading it after a 25 year lapse since I read it.