You got that right.
The US has had a change of government during the last decades, and the federal government has become a behemoth. Our federal system is dying, while both conservative and liberals applaud, because their end justify the means.
We are becoming as centralized as France, where everyone looks at Paris for answers to their problems. Our Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves.
The same was/is happening in our federal system in Germany, too, within a few decades. In 1950, 20% of all bills needed the approval of the Bundesrat (comparable to Senate), because they affected the states (somehow). In 2000, it was 65% of all bills! That shows how much power the federal stage got. But we - fortunately - can (and will in this case) change the constitution, because a better division of the powers of the states and Berlin makes decisions more transparent.