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What we are sadly finding out is that small government conservatism is dead. Us small government free markets types are destined for the wilderness for awhile. We are learning that the so-called conservative base was not so conservative after all. We thought that the base wanted to cut big government down to its constitutional limit, but we were wrong. The new conservative base wanted nothing to do with our Milton Friedman small government free market world. They just want big government to work for them. They want a return to the days of FDR and Harry Truman. Back in the days before the New Left, think Hippies, turned them off from the Democrats. We are finding that the base are not Reagan conservatives but FDR New Dealers. They want big government to do its thing, but still get a tear in their eye when hearing,”Proud To Be An American.” All the efforts to promote free market solutions have been an abject failure. The federal leviathan is destined to keep rolling along for mamy decades to come. Again, us small government types have lost the argument. We might have thought we were winning for a time, but we were wrong.