If you are talking about welfare - welfare has become unpopular. If you are talking about something else - what is it?
Look, we limit personal behaviors across the board based on societal concerns.
Personal behavioral limits hopefully have to do with consciously harming others - assault, theft, fraud etc. There is no freedom to consciously harm. However - we are still the freest nation on the planet and I don't see any movement toward less freedom and more social engineering.
People do not want the government or other people telling them how to live their lives.
I've seen a movement towards less freedom.....smoking Nazis
Thanks for the additional comments. I'll leave it at that. Have a good weekend.