President Trump's return to the White House will bring many things with it. One of those might be a renaissance of our essential liberties. I think, just maybe, we have a shot to "Make Privacy Great Again." Or maybe "Make America Private Again." Either way, it's been lost for a while.

In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg made the argument that privacy was no longer a "social norm."

Of course, this announcement came on the heels of Facebook changing its privacy policies, about which the Electronic Frontier Foundation said, "These new 'privacy' changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before. Even worse, the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data."

The erosion of privacy even scares the very left-wing ACLU, which said just a year ago: "For many years, the government claimed sweeping authority under the Patriot Act to collect a record of every single phone call made by every single American 'on an ongoing daily basis.' This program not only exceeded the authority given to the government by Congress, but it violated the right of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment, and the rights of free speech and association protected by the First Amendment."

This past election, the constant text messages from people we don't know became a frequent complaint and joke. A generation has grown up without privacy. Is privacy passé?

I believe that when our daily activities have become more transparent to the government than the government's daily activities are to us, it's time to reassert the proper order of things.

If we're going to be very constitutional, then the federal government shouldn't even have the expectation of knowing our name. The number of citizens who live in our house via the census is the most data the federal government should have about us - if the Constitution is our guide.

Oversight applies only to those aspects of life that we are to manage. It's not the government's job to manage us. As I wrote yesterday, "The people were never meant to be controlled by a government that encroaches into every aspect of their lives. It's not the people who need regulation; it's the government. Ours is intended to be a limited government. Let's regulate government, not people."

Likewise, let's oversee the government, and not allow the government to oversee us.

If you choose to reveal your private life to the world, that should be your choice. It should not be the default for advertisers, social media, the many layers of government, and who knows how many other entities to know about our private conversations, actions, or relationships.

Let's pray that President Trump's administration will be a golden age of the return of lost liberties, and among those, a return of privacy.