Indeed, the primary history of the last century has been the growth and centralization of power into the state, via the growth of state-capitalist ideology. Not just in the US, but across the whole world governments are larger and involved in 100x more areas they never were in the early 1900s.

I've posted this here before, but the first half of this book "The Fourth Revolution" has a really great history of how western governments have grown into behemoths.

https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Revolution-Global-Reinvent-Sta...

The 2nd half about moving more towards a Singapore style limited gov - which has proven to be wildly successful there - is less persuasive, even though is fundamentally well motivated. As I believe they benefit from being small by nature not just design. Smaller states > large federated countries, as federalism constantly gets eatten away by centralized growth towards the executive/federal gov, away from state power. Without a concerted push-back and a strong culture, federalism will always result in top heavy administrations, where fewer and fewer people have more and more power over the whole country.