From a reader:

Dear Jonah,
I haven’t finished your book, but I’ve read enough to note how it
resonates with the work of great cultural historian Christopher
Dawson. I’m reading Bradley Birzer’s book on him now: “Sanctifying
the World”.
On p.124, Birzer discusses Dawson’s book, “Religion and the Modern
State” (1936):
Dawson “described the rise of fascism while labeling the rise of the New Deal in America as a benign form of dictatorship. ‘It is in fact a constitutional dictatorship,’ Dawson wrote bluntly. Further, he noted, to abandon the free market, as the Americans had done, would lead to the abandonment of other American liberties. ‘We shall also have to abandon political individualism and the right to criticize and oppose the Government,’ Dawson wrote. Rooted in the Burkean tradition of organic common law and constitutional medievalism, Dawson believed that all liberties were wrapped together, inseparable from one another….mass democracies more often than not allow bureaucracies and selfish interests to assume control, forcing all things to become political and politicized…” Check out this quote especially, which might have come from your own
pen:
“It may be harder to resist a Totalitarian state which relies on free milk and birth control clinics than one which relies on castor oil and concentration camps.”