Big corporations & big government

Progressives are outraged at the power over the government wielded by big corporations.  But, in a comment made in a column on a different subject, George Will observes that the big corporations wouldn’t have the power they do if it weren’t for the existence of big government, a creation primarily of progressives.

From George Will, Sherrod Brown is the odd man out with Democrats – The Washington Post:

[Elizabeth] Warren’s status as the progressives’ heartthrob stems from the theatricality with which she has alighted upon the obvious with a sense of original discovery, and has studiously not drawn the obvious but inconvenient conclusion. She is incandescent with fury about the fact, which it certainly is, that big government is a tireless servant of the strong. She is scandalized by the process by which the regulatory state, progressivism’s achievement, is manipulated by those sufficiently affluent, articulate and confident to hire manipulative lawyers and lobbyists.