Commentary
The crises of recent years tend to erase from memory those that preceded them.
One, as you may recall, was the financial collapse of 2008—a collapse deemed by many as the worst since the Great Depression.
That collapse swept into power a government like the one we have now—the White House and both houses of Congress controlled by Democrats.
Newly elected President Barack Obama appointed then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, who made popular the saying, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
Indeed, the new Democrat administration followed this advice and used the financial crisis as an opportunity for a major expansion of government.
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