Wanting a Putin here is scary and stupid. Conservatives rooting for a far more dominant government than we already have is utterly bizarre.
Trump is not Putin, for better and worse.
People are going to have to get into the negotiation crowd that is speaking with Trump, if they expect to have some effect.
There are excellent cases to be made for reducing government and leaving many things either to the people or to the states. Less waste. Greater efficiency. Freeing people to do jobs that are actually productive, not sinecures. But someone is going to actually have to make them, not in a teapot tempest like FR, but to Trump.