It’s the be-ginning of *a* New Deal (It’s a New Deal)

A “word to the wise” as regards the untranscendability of the American New Deal: the bureaucratic technics employed by FDR and Company are often imitated, never duplicated — and that’s just fine with Us, it is. Wilson’s clever subreption of “Prussian” (PRI) bureaucratic centralismo having become awesome, our boys in Foggy Bottom needed to clean up good and they turned to the most powerful technique then available: Legal Marxism, which makes anything look cool for a second. Only a “hot” second? Well, when it’s a question of “The Greatest Thing on Earth” and Tippecanoe, IN and Sane Planning for Sensible Tomorrows from people secretly self-involved on neither score, in fact the correct thing to infer is you gon’ love it: there is literally nothing to be done about a “structural-functionalist” approach to American statecraft, particularly the paler and maler the “subversions” who bring it to you are. Pause for “liberality”: ahhh. And so it goes, and will go in these United States, but — Reagan knew this, and look what he ‘got away with’ — and —