From the NYT:

“I fear the gov­ern­ment has passed the point of no return,” said Ron Cher­now, a lead­ing Amer­i­can finan­cial his­to­rian. “We have the irony of a free-​market admin­is­tra­tion doing things that the most lib­eral Demo­c­ra­tic admin­is­tra­tion would never have been doing in its wildest dreams.”