… is from page 292 of George Will’s 2019 book, The Conservative Sensibility (original emphasis):
New Deal policies were calculated not merely to please or placate existing constituencies but to create many constituencies – labor, retirees, farmers, union members – who would be dependent on the government whose programs summoned them to dependency.


New Deal policies were calculated not merely to please or placate existing constituencies but to create many constituencies – labor, retirees, farmers, union members – who would be dependent on the government whose programs summoned them to dependency.
