Starvin Larry

Yesterday’s election was important. President Obama’s election and reelection may well have represented the high-water mark on how much government the American electorate will voluntarily impose on itself. This election can rightly be seen as a repudiation of Obama, but it must be understood what has been repudiated.

The Democrats are the party of government, and nothing more. The bedrock of government is the philosophy of command and control, a philosophy ever more unsuited to a world of breathtakingly rapid technological and economic change and increasing individual empowerment and autonomy. Obama is a proponent and symbol of unchecked expansion of the government and its power. Someday, in an ironic sort of way, we may thank him for so dramatically demonstrating why that expansion is doomed to failure.

Obama has shown that government is incompetent: the Obamacare rollout, the VA scandal, the Ebola response, the shovel ready projects that never materialized…