Growth of US Government exploded after WW2 and world became much LESS free

[Winston]

What you're never told is that WW1 and WW2 caused the world to be a lot LESS free before, because after WW2, the size of the US government grew drastically, and world coalitions such as the United Nations were formed, as well as Communist blocs with Russia, China and Eastern Europe. Hence the world became a lot LESS free.

https://ideas.repec.org/p/rut/rutres/199801.html

Abstract
It is frequently claimed that World War II contributed to the growth of big government in the United States. One theory is that agencies that were given additional resources or authority during the war were able to retain them after the war because the agencies and their supporters were able to take advantage of inefficiency and inertia in the political process. The public, moreover, it is said, had gotten use to higher taxes during the war, so it was not necessary for the government to lower taxes all the way to their prewar level. This is the famous "ratchet" hypothesis. In this paper, however, I argue that there is little evidence for this phenomenon. On the other hand, I argue that the perception that government spending and control of the economy had proved successful during the war contributed to the ongoing shift in public attitudes in favor of big government.

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Gov ... rowth.html

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419 ... 998-01.pdf