No you might say this is more of a 'I've seen what the national government has done with unobstructed power in the past 140 years and it continues to destroy the vision of a Republic' type of fears
You know, talk like that used to be the sure mark of a Republican (back when I was one.) Now it marks you as a conservative. 'Completely diff'rent animal, of course.
Isn't it too bad what FR has degenerated to?