hubris, judicial activism, excesses, obstructionism, overreaction, wrongheaded, malfeasance, irresponsibility, usurpation, conservatism, cravenness, statists, antibusiness, statist, intrusion, arrogation, meddling, overweening, recklessness, liberals, micromanagement, moral hazard, populists, obstructionists, uncheckable, tyrannical, unaccountable, misguided, constitutionalize, libertarians, idiocracy, illiberal, bureaucracies, conservatives, misreading, stultification, overburdensome, redistributionist, confiscatory, arrogance, inaction, legislating, shortsightedness, statism, unrestrained, eviscerate, overzealous, progressives, folly, repudiation, abdication, incompetence, avarice, federalize, reactionary, immoderation, rapaciousness, zealotry, interventionist, pandering, corporatism, spinelessness, overstepping, unfettered, blanding, kowtow, reductio ad absurdum, partisanship, disingenuousness, timidity, abridgment, subservience, laissez faire, presentism, ineffectuality, circumscribing, liberalism, pinheaded, heedlessness, antilabor, overkill, knavery, unscrupulousness, asininity, socialized medicine, perversion, socialistic, egregious, boondoggle, hypocrisy, tightfistedness, unbridled, neoconservativism, demagogues, progressivism, rooseveltian, greed, fillibuster, tin ear, uncompassionate, mendacity, liberties, federalism, juggernaut, quo, alliance, ascendancy, aspirations, colossus, commission, giant, globalism, headquarters, incubus, leadership, leviathan, mindset, paramountcy, policymaking, regime, rivalry, statecraft

fail, go wrong, miscarry

beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit