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You know, I actually agree with the variety of conservatism that is instinctive distrust of state power and the need to vigorously watch the watchmen (who have a monopoly on violence, and anyway more capacity for violence than any nonstate actor ever will.)
In general, empowering disadvantaged individuals is in fact preferable to empowering the state to act on their behalf. But nominally conservative whites are FAR more comfortable empowering a racist government to protect minority rights than empowering minorities ourselves.
Would “conservative” racists rather have a massive “big government” high-administration effort like food stamps or housing vouchers/public housing? Or would they rather give cash assistance conditioned solely on income? Or cash transfers to the victims of housing discrimination?
And it’s more than that. The “small government” remedy to state military power isn’t more private gun ownership, it’s LESS MILITARY SPENDING. LESS MILITARIZED POLICE.
But this all presumed that the rationale of most conservatives goes “small government is good therefore let’s do all these things.” It’s the reverse: “we want to do all these things and small government is a good rationale that shores up our case.”
“Small government” has never been a popular position except among elites who want to restrain the power of other elites. However “stop Truman/Warren/LBJ/Obama from making me integrate and giving money to poor people ESPECIALLY poor black people” is EXTREMELY popular.
But it’s too bad, bc empowering black folks directly is preferable to empowering us through the medium of the state and lawsuits and courts and etc., when there is unequal access to the state and lawsuits and courts and etc.
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