How can Donald Trump routinely be described as waging war on “Big Government” even as he uses his government to control what women do with their bodies, to dictate what people can say and read and even think; to compile ever more intrusive information about its citizens and maintain lists of undesirables; to kidnap and disappear to foreign torture prisons disfavored legal residents; to unilaterally remake the American economy; and to attempt to crush the news media, academia, and the legal profession? The answer helps explain how we got in this mess in the first place.