Robert Higgs has made a similar argument, they can scale things back when they get too chaotic and, sometimes, they have the sentience to do it.

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Reagan saved big government in the 1980s. In the 1990s, Bill Clinton took office and enacted the Cultural Marxist revolution while mostly leaving Reagan’s reforms alone. If there had been no political will to cut tax rates, stop the Fed from inflating, and somewhat reduce government interference with energy production, we would have faced economic disaster in the 1980s. Socialization of health care would have happened in the 1970s had Nixon not been impeached and probably would have happened in the 1980s had there been no Reagan Revolution. In the 1990s, it would have happened if there was no Republican Revolution in 1994. Today, health care will be socialized unless the 5 conservatives on the Supreme Court decide to reject commerce clause precedents and repeal the Obama health care law (I’m actually optimistic that they will).

I’m hopeful that we can bring about a more libertarian America by peaceful means through the electoral process (this depends, however, on taking over the Republican Party). However, I recognize that if slight reforms are made, that has the potential to “save” this system and delay its inevitable demise. The alternative path would be to bide our time and wait until the system collapses (this strategy depends upon the existence of a large cadre of radical libertarian activists that will be ready when our opportunity arrives). As long as we have a Mises Institute and it remains uncorrupted, we should have a significant number of libertarians to be able to influence a revolution whenever it happens (I recommend reading Rothbard’s strategic insights, as I believe his strategy is being vindicated by the events in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood will likely gain power soon).