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Last night, during Hillary Clinton’s unending parade of boredom, she dropped a line she’d cribbed from President Obama’s speech the night before: [M]ost of all, don't believe anyone who says: “I alone can fix it.” Those were actually Donald Trump's words in Cleveland. And they should set off alarm bells for all of us. Really? I alone can fix it?....Americans don't say: “I alone can fix it.” We say: “We'll fix it together.” Remember: Our Founders fought a revolution and wrote a Constitution so America would never be a nation where one person had all the power.

President Obama said the same thing on Wednesday night:

Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled. Our power comes from those immortal declarations first put to paper right here in Philadelphia all those years ago.

This is the new Democratic Big Lie: that they believe in the power of Americans to make their own decisions.

Since the early 20th century, the American progressive movement has believed in the unending power of the executive branch. Woodrow Wilson infamously stated, “The president is at liberty both in law and conscience to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit.” Democrats believe this in their core – they believe in the power of FDR, the wonder of JFK, the authority of Barack Obama. They believe, as Chris Rock once said, that the president is “our boss…our dad.” They think that a massive bureaucracy – supposed experts – determining the course of our lives makes America great.

The new Democratic appreciation for checks and balances is a ruse, a prevarication, a whopper. The Democrats have no intention of returning to the bounds of the Constitution – which, after all, were designed to limit the expansion and growth of government. They simply adopt that rhetoric because Donald Trump has given them an excuse to do so.

But their lie is on full display, even in their own rhetoric. When Hillary Clinton says “We’ll fix it together,” she doesn’t mean that we’ll fix it in our communities and by cooperating through non-governmental social institutions. She doesn’t mean that we’ll act as individuals engaging in voluntary exchange of goods and services. She means that we’ll give her power, and she’ll do all the things she wants to do. She’ll be the repository of the Rousseau-ian general will. She’ll be Wilson’s Big Man – er, Woman.

Obama, too, played this rhetorical trick. After lamenting the notion of the “savior,” he said:

America has never been about what one person says he'll do for us. It's about what can be achieved by us, together, through the hard and slow and sometimes frustrating, but ultimately enduring work of self-government.

But what Obama means by “self-government” isn’t local and state control, or even the calculated gridlock of the founders. He means that we vote for people like him, and then they save us.

The Democrats say that “I alone can fix it” is un-American – and they’re right. But they propose as an alternative, “Government is the only thing we all belong to” – precisely the same concept, but with different verbiage.

That’s the lie. Democrats still want a savior. They just fib about it because they don’t want Donald Trump to be that savior.