Coolidge’s Silent Recipe for Success: Less Federal Government

"The response to anything that doesn’t function optimally has too often been more government, regardless of level and, overwhelmingly since the New Deal, to the benefit of politicians’ electoral prospects. Many Americans seem to approve of this development, voting for the politicians willing to “do something,” even if they make things worse. As both parties prepare to officially select their candidates at conventions this summer, the centennial of Calvin Coolidge’s only presidential election in 1924 should serve to remind Americans that less federal government and better state and local government is the governance formula behind this country’s political success. When it means restraining big and bad government, silence really can be golden."

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