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There's a strain of anti-Republican sentiment that says that Republicans are anti-government, that things like tax cuts and deregulation are modes of weakening or shrinking the government. Is that what ICE is? How about bathroom policing? Governmental vetos on healthcare? Infinity cop funding? Is that all "anti-government", is that "small government"? Red states, and Republican controlled federal government, doesn't look like a retreat of government power to me: it looks like a reorganization and *expansion* of government, along with centralization of power. Texas and Florida aren't places where the government is meek, fragile, and in retreat: these are places where government is muscular and assertive, deeply involved in daily affairs of life, from setting the agenda for college courses to running concentration camps.