Since you are excusing not only big government but also the actions of the most infamous dictatorship of the last century, then it’s your credibility in question. Invoking the Founding Fathers with respect to big government is an outrage, with all due respect—they certainly understood that growing government by engaging in public works projects that could have been achieved by the private sector is neither good nor right.
Everything we have could have been achieved without any government invention—everything. That’s not “throwing out the baby with the bath water”, because government intervention is the unnecessary factor here and not the “baby”.
I’m not excusing big government, nor actions by a dictatorship. So it’s your reading comprehension we need to call in to question.