State Power Is An End In Itself.

The New Deal is usually presented as having been a roaring success that saved America and the world fro the Great Depression. This is the opposite of reality so when liberals and leftists acknowledge that it was ineffective I don't want to be too harsh on them because this realisation is rare. Even so what sense can be made of someone who realises that FDR's statism was a failure but who supports it anyway on the grounds that:

FDR's achievements have always been as much political as economic. What the 32nd president did was to shift the 20th-century paradigm from neoliberal let-alone to state intervention. He convinced the American people that society as a whole, operating through the federal government, must and could protect itself against the impersonal and amoral vagaries of the market.

So untrammeled state power is an end in itself, not simply a means to security or prosperity.