Jonah Goldberg

Transformers: Less Than Meets the Eye

The smartest thing for either party to do is engage in a serious campaign to simply make government do the stuff it’s supposed to do.

The quasi-religious obsession with making government an engine of social transformation is a direct byproduct of the government’s inability or unwillingness to do the simple, normal, work of government. Talking about “transformation,” “making America great,” fighting Frankfurt School Marxism, white supremacy, structural racism, the deep state, and all the other abstract hobgoblins that consume our imaginations is what you get when politicians don’t know—or don’t care—about doing their jobs.