When I was younger, around when Unqualified Reservations was being written and coining the term, I was pretty incensed at the Deep State. Around 2020, I became

When I was younger, around when Unqualified Reservations was being written and coining the term, I was pretty incensed at the Deep State. Around 2020, I became quite thankful for it. Some of it is certainly due to getting older and more conservative. But also as frustrating as bureaucracy is, it's still drastically better than autocracy. We take that for granted at our peril.