According to Welch and the JBS, the main tool of these “Insiders” was “progressive legislation”; on this view all social welfare programs, such as worker’s compensation and Medicare, “made possible, of course, by idealists with only the noblest of intentions,” were “rot introduced in the name of progress.” The goal of such measures was to “reduce the responsibilities and rights of individual citizens, while steadily increasing the quantity, the reach, and the potential tyranny of governments.” And chief among the tools to accomplish these goals were “such decisively important measures as . . .
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