He makes a lot of proclamations about what would happen, but doesn't really back up his assertions. It's just a jumble of the usual drivel about "big government bad" restated as a priori facts.
It's why humanity moved away from monarchies and dictatorships to democracies and republics centuries ago; power corrupts. I think the author was hoping that it'd be common knowledge, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be any more.
