You don’t have to go back, you just have to pass amendments to the things that need to be changed. There is not much I can think of that needs to be amended to allow the federal government to do things I want it to do. FDR’s era added nothing that we need to keep. LBJ’s era added nothing that we need to keep. Nixon, with his EPA, Carter with his Dept. of Education, and Clinton and Obama, added nothing that we need to keep. Limited government is still enough to maintain America as a superpower. Restoring prosperity makes us even stronger, as a matter of fact. If you can point to anything that we need to keep, please do so. I will let you know what I think. The times didn’t demand socialism, the times overcame the failure of socialism.
We need to keep whatever can deal with wars, big and small, and economic depressions, big and small. I see China as our biggest threat, both military and economic.