irreversibly changing” the nature of politics.48 Many liberals then and since have tended to miss this strategic use of privatization to enchain democracy, at worst seeing the proposals as coming simply from dogma that preferred the private sector to the public.49 Those driving the train knew otherwise. Privatization was a key element of the crab walk to the final, albeit gradual, revolution—the ends-justify-the-means approach that allowed for using disingenuous claims to take terrain that would make the ultimate project possible.
