Any government that is a national-security state needs big official enemies — scary ones, ones that will cause the citizenry to continue supporting not only the continued existence of a national-security state form of government but also ever-growing budgets for it and its army of voracious “defense” contractors.
A new California bill that would pass off regulation of the fast food industry to an unelected council has raised concerns with Republicans and business groups struggling to recover from pandemic lockdowns.