If you use "in the national interest" as your threshold, you can apply it to almost anything: It's in the national interest to have a healthy population. For e

If you use "in the national interest" as your threshold, you can apply it to almost anything: It's in the national interest to have a healthy population. For everyone to work out regularly. For everyone to read every day. For everyone to travel the world and learn about other cultures. For everyone to get a full night's sleep. That's why that is not the US standard. We explicitly have restraints and constraints on government. If you want to remove those restraints and constraints, that's fine. There's a process for that. But if you ignore the restraints and constraints instead, then government power is based on whims and preferences of whoever is in power. And we know how that works out.