You DID Build That: The brutal truth about government ‘services’ that Elizabeth Warren won't tell you

How progressive elites confuse government's legitimate role with bureaucratic incompetence—and why forgotten Americans know better

The blood of a traditionalist conservative still runs hot when a Massachusetts progressive ventures to school us about who built America. Elizabeth Warren’s 2011 declaration that “nobody got rich on his own” became Barack Obama’s even more damaging rallying cry in 2012: “You didn’t build that!”

These patronizing proclamations from our coastal elites reveal not merely their contempt for entrepreneurial achievement, but a fundamental confusion between “The State” as an institution and the parade of incompetents who operate it.

This distinction matters—profoundly. The state, properly understood, represents a foundational compact by which the people organize themselves for mutual protection and the preservation of ordered liberty.

What Warren and Obama defend, however, is something altogether different: a bloated apparatus of bureaucratic meddlers whose primary achievement has been the systematic destruction of everything they touch.

Western Civilization has labored under the thumb of liberal…