Do Republicans support small government or do they want the government to support their desired social hierarchies?

[Yes_Minister]

Do Republicans support small government or do they want the government to support their desired social hierarchies? It would be nice if conservatives address this head on, rather than pivot to something else.

Whenever conservatives complain about big government, it's sways some gripe about taxes or gun laws, but when it comes to others outside their clique, they seem to support using state power against them.

They see the black community as thugs and needing to controlled by militarized police and the law and order agenda, they see LGBT people as degenerate and have to be controlled by the family values agenda, etc.

It also seems their supposed devotion to free market ideology is about maintaining class heiarchies and get mad when companies do something they don't approve of, like protests against Disney when it gave mild push back to the Florida "Don't say gay bill". So they only like the free market when it promotes their desired hierarchies and get it mad at the free market when it doesn't do that.

 

[bongsaway]

I've been noticing how the small government people in red states have lately been passing a ton of new laws to go along with their smaller, less intrusive government.

 

[bluesmoke]

Since Reagan, conservatives have been more in favor of big govt as measured by the fed budget and national debt of Republican vs Democratic admin. Dems favor more of those budgets be for social programs while Reps favor tax breaks to the rich and large corps, the trickle down of which has barely moistened the majority of Americans enough to grow wealth enough to prevent the increase in the wealth gap, supporting social hierarchies.