There's really no way around it, the federal government has to be massively down-sized. There's no New Deal 2 coming, no redux of the Radical Republican amendments to the Constitution (which only came about because the reactionary southern states were militarily occupied), no new Civil Rights Acts on the horizon. On the net, the federal government is the most evil institution in American society: Indian removal, fugitive slave laws, imperialist war, the FBI as an instrument of class war. The whole structure is rotten.