Interestly enough the people who get behind the "small government, we are a country of laws act" do not see how it plays out in action and who pays for it, and ultimately who takes advantage of it. It is all there in real history. Fantasy is for those who do not want to do the work of studying reality. 
When you put and established long term rule breaker in the most powerful job on earth with commander-in-chief status who immediately demonstrates that he has all of the desires and methods of being a 20th century dictator in present leadership it should make anyone with a brain between their ears wake up like they have a taser up their behind.