Is that even the right's marketing message in the US? I feel like the "headline" messages from the right, at least here where I'm spending some time in Houston,

Is that even the right's marketing message in the US? I feel like the "headline" messages from the right, at least here where I'm spending some time in Houston, are demanding more law-and-order and a more authoritarian government, not a smaller, more hands-off government and more civil liberties. The two big pet issues of the right here are: 1) cracking down on illegal immigration by any means necessary, and 2) cracking down on terrorism by any means necessary. Billboards are full of advertisements from prospective politicians, elected judges (a nutty situation itself), and elected sheriffs, promising how they're going to wield the arm of government more often, and more ruthlessly, than their predecessors did. Double the number of cops, build a border fence, put drones on the border, institute surveillance of mosques, allow no-warrant stops of vehicles, require citizens to carry an ID card at all times, etc., etc. And when issues get to the Texas Supreme Court, politically it seems to almost always be various liberal groups sending in amicus briefs on the pro-civil-liberties side, and conservative groups sending in briefs on the pro-government side. The one exception is gun rights, where basically both sides are in favor (in Texas), but the right is more strongly in favor.