Give some examples of how the traditional political right (conservatives) supports welfare statism.

Few conservatives seriously question the individual right violations of the big three welfare statist programs—Social Security, Medicare, and government (“public”) education. And as the bipartisan 2020 $2.2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package showed, conservatives are happy to expand government involvement in a crisis at the expense of individual rights. And representatives of the political right with a nationalist bent are no strangers to advocating for more individual rights violating regulations when it suits their purposes, as recent debates about regulating or breaking up big technology companies have demonstrated.

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