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There is always an argument to make the government more efficient, but I don't think this <gestures> is what anyone really has in mind. People want cheaper eggs, the ability to receive medical care, the ability to stabilize their living situation through property ownership, and a stable job. What are we doing about those things? The reality is that the "machine" has always tried to add stability in those areas, and throwing away the machine isn't making things better for anyone. Like, if we made the government so efficient, why am I still paying 40% of my income in taxes?
When we disappear people to El Salvador without trial, that's fascism, my friend.
Often it arises from the demands of the public after private interests (many of whom are now excessively capitalized by any definition of that term) have deemed the public need to be inconvenient to their desires to make the maximum possible return on their investments. That, or to prevent tragedies of the commons.
By the way, plenty of people have both had first-hand experience with fascism and call the Trumpist cult by that name. No one's being called a fascist because they want to stabilize the fiscal position of the country's government; they're being called fascist because they say they want that, then hire a guy with no respect for rule of law to do the exact opposite of that.
Whether this is a good idea or not is not what I'm getting at, but yeah, it's a major dismantling of institutions that touch the everyday lives of Americans (and the world).