Republicans are traditionally, and on paper, the party of “small government”. “Fuck off feds, it’s none of your business” type shit. Some just wanted a small central government that let states and local government make their own choices, some wanted as small a government as possible at all levels.

Which is also why you see a minority of old school republican voters refusing to call Trump’s clown show republican.

That capitalization style is meant to be mocking, because the current dipshits in power clearly don’t have any intentions of “small government”.