But it’s not about the size of the government, or the bureaucracy, it’s about whether anyone can have dictatorial power over life, death, freedom etc of others without any check on the legality of their orders.

The separation and co-equal branches of the 3 arms of government is bedrock. The government and bureaucracy can be huge or tiny without relevance to this.

I understand the appeal of being unshackled by other people’s opinions and interests.

I just don’t know how they reconcile their notional “conservatism” (they is conserving the traditions) with dismantling the actual tradition.