Under Donald Trump, we are seeing as much or more government than ever before. We’re seeing lots of government at the Federal level, at the State level. And what of all of the neoliberal government/corporation relationships being formed that will take over such functions – using corporations to do government work is still a big government. Increasing the presence and work of police and immigration is big government. Adding what businesses have to pay to the government via tariffs is big government.
Big big big. Everything Trump is big, not small. “Big beautiful tax bill”, nothing small about any of it. [and the two things people liked – the no tax on tips and the other one – aren’t a part of it anymore because of the Republicans who were holdouts needed to be won over]
Swooping in and creating new big beautiful databases to contain all of our personal information all in one big beautiful place by the DOGE people and their business partners is not small government but a big, centralized government.
Donald Trump is not a libertarian. He just uses their words.