Formal origin: the socialist FDR.
Operation: the utterly unconstitutional Administrative State is a study of the continued attempts to do the wrong things the right way.
Wrong Roosevelt. The bureaucracy got its start from Theodore Roosevelt.
The FDA, what we know today as the BLM got its start with TR’s nationalization efforts related to the national parks, the FBI, the USDA, and several others. The outrageous use of executive orders we suffer under today with president-as-dictator, that also began with Theodore Roosevelt. TR was incredibly petty. When he couldn’t get his way, he did end-run-arounds of congress and was partial to shredding the Constitution and he was the one who was first to run to the liberal media in order to get help from the fake news to help manipulate the populace into big government schemes.
TR’s Bull Moose Platform of 1912 is a Christmas Tree smorgasbord of big government wishlist items, and it includes universal healthcare.
It was all supercharged by Woodrow Wilson, who is generally regarded to have carried through on the Bull Moose platform.
Aided and abetted by Wild Bill Donovan, the granddaddy of the CIA.
The old “spoils system” was much safer for the Republic than the Civil Service.