FLASHBACK: Phil Hamburger: Administrative Discrimination: To fight prejudice, get the bureaucrats out of power.

The unsavory character of the administrative state will not come altogether as a surprise to the readers of this website—or of my scholarship—but for many Americans it is nearly a revelation. Though administrative power is shamefully discriminatory, there has long been a refusal even to discuss this; so the possibility now comes as a surprise.

Of course, there have been some genuine revelations—in particular Dan McLaughlin’s recent essay in National Review on “The Confederate Roots of the Administrative State.” McLaughlin points out that when Woodrow Wilson theorized and established the federal administrative state, he drew upon the experience of the Confederate States of America.

The Deep State is a monument to the Confederacy. It must be abolished. You don’t want to keep it, do you? Are you some kind of racist?