America abandoned small government decades before Gen Z was born. Oh sure we’ve had politicians that TALKED about small government. But NOBODY actually tries to make the government smaller. If anything Gen Z is simply acknowledging that the government will never shrink so there’s no reason to talk about it.
I do generally agree, America did abandon the concept - but I mean our voters though.(maybe that is what you meant too)
The last gasp of American conservatism was the Tea Party, and it was our guys (!!!Our Guys!!!) who decided “no we don’t really want this after all”
To that extent, it can be said that we abandoned Gen Z and because we FA now we get to FO.
The FAFO is really gonna hurt this time.
Fair point. For example I give you the mayor of Baltimore’s staff. Increased this year by 30 people to 130+ total. That is alot of patronage that BOTH parties love so much.
Donald Trump does!