Maybe that has something to do with the steady cancerous growth of the Federal govt. over the years? If you elect someone whose entire career involves being in govt. and pandering to special interests to keep himself in power, then you have only yourself to blame for the consequences.
The world of politics as we know it has dramatically changed forever. The failed “conventional wisdom” of the past is in a state of collapse.
The last one elected wasn’t exactly a “state’s rights” advocate, as I recall.