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"The state as we know it consists of an aspirational cartel of dominant industrial interests in every sector which are engaged in ongoing conspiracies against a free and competitive marketplace."

— Tucker, Jeffrey

Context: From "What Is the State and Who Controls It?" (Brownstone Institute, October 21, 2025). Tucker draws on Gabriel Kolko's revisionist history of the Progressive Era, in which regulatory agencies like the FDA are understood not as neutral referees but as vehicles industry itself sought out to entrench incumbents against competition.

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