re: #187 PT Barnum

Doesn’t all come down to effective government regardless of the quantity?

If government is effective in protecting the population from the unscrupulous either external or internal, would it matter how big it is?

That’s where I think the future of conservatism is going to be. Smaller government has become a pretty much meaningless and impractical talking point. It’s never going to happen. More efficient government is the better goal.