I think the capital D was downright Freudian. GWB increased the size and scope of government more than any president since LBJ.
Maybe that is conservative over at the Weakly Standard but it is not where I live.
Remind me again, how possible it was to Run on Privatizing Social (ist In)Security, let alone get elected while doing so.
9/11 intervened, but that was to be his signature issue, before becoming a wartime President.
That would have been the largest transfer of power from the Federal Government, to the Citizen, in modern times.