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That is also the problem with most governments. They always tend to get too big for their britches and, when that happens, people get upset and things, eventually, change. The trick of good government is to maintain a middle stance, in most things, which is the most likely to be acceptable to the largest part of those being governed.
For the past fifteen years we have been watching as Republicans, then the Tea Party, and now Trump, have advocated shrinking the government until it could be "drowned in the bathtub".
I daresay it's been adequately "waterboarded" at this point. Pendulums always swing back to zero first before they continue swinging in the other direction. We are about as far to the right as we can possibly get before the pendulum breaks its hinges and careens off into radical fascism altogether and yet you're convinced that we're on the brink of near-communism.
Wow.
I don't know if "too big for it's britches," is the right phrase. What happens is each new president and the members of their party always over reach or treat their election as a mandate. That causes huge loses in their first midterm. Perhaps because the voters just wanted to get rid of the old, were more angry at the old regime than angry at those out of power?
Look at the house losses during each president's first midterm 2018 Trump lost 40 seats 2010 Obama lost 63 seats 2002 Bush gained 8 seats, because of 9-11 united the people behind him and his party. But he lost 33 seats in his next midterm, 2006 1994 Bill Clinton lost 54 seats 1990 Bush Sr. lost 8 seats, but he had only 175 to begin with. 1982 Reagan lost 28 seats leaving him at 166 etc.
as for shrinking government, neither party does it. The Republicans enlarge government just as much as the democrats, but the Republicans lie about it. The Democrats proudly proclaim their fancy for bigger and bigger government.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.
