-from the essay cited and linked->
Jackson and Lincoln militarized the government but that mostly dissipated.
Wilson got the three transformative amendments added to the Constitution that initiated the slide toward the Security State.
FDR initiated the crushing bureaucracy and the principle that government can control the economy.
Johnson aborted the rapid advance and entry of the Negro population into the general economy and trapped a large part of the population in government mandated poverty and subservience and voting for the Government party in perpetuity.
Obama made the transformation away from the Representative Republic to the Marxist managerial state explicit.
And Obama shifted the replacement of the American People by third worlders into high gear.
Biden's politburo is finishing the job.
Excellent perspective.
Bush 43 sure gave the alphabet agencies all kinds of power - Let’s be honest there.