The Key Point
By Always worth keeping in mind:
[A]ctual small government conservatism — as opposed to opposition to unspecified waste or a misunderstanding of the size of the foreign aid budget — is essentially nonexistent at the popular level.
Indeed. For supplementary comedy, Glenn Reynolds not only attempts but to deny this truth, but imagines a popular groundswell behind the Repeal Amendment. His evidence? The New York Times did a story on it.