This is definitely true, but isn't it equally true for those who want the government to increase its influence and size? They usually have pretty particular ideas about how they want it to 'do something about X.'
I'm pretty much completely politically disaffected these days, but what frustrates me about the growth of government (and especially the overreach of the executive) is that neither 'team' will consider the consequences of increasing governmental influence when they lose control of it. If you give government the power to do something you want, you've also given it the power to undo it (or do the opposite).
After watching the unhinged mewling of birthers over Obama and the derangement that Trump has caused, with apocalyptic convulsions from both sides, maybe we should consider allowing government a little less control over our lives. I had kind of hoped that the lesson we would learn from this presidency was that if we've given our government/executive so much power as to be seen as an existential threat, perhaps that's a little too much?