If you can make a case for government-controlled education and medical care, then it is easier to make a case for socialized law - or socialized plumbing, for that matter.
Liberal Democrats all but concede that Obamacare marked the end of their activist ambitions. Hereafter, we will all take vigorous walks and watch prestige dramas on HBO.
But there’s still at least one major social-welfare project the left must see through before anyone considers its mission accomplished. The issue is the vast injustice that arises from the way the law is applied to different classes of citizens.
If and when that's done, there will something else, ad infinitum, until the people rebel and take back their birthright.