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If Dyer has grown sentimental about the England of his upbringing, his nostalgia is a subtle critique of how optimism in big government has grown worse for wear — “Homework” bursts with working-class pride, a fond and mournful belief in the possibility of the British welfare state.

In this reading, conservatives must seize power to restore moral and social order, even if that requires using big government to break monopolies and redistribute income a bit to some of the Americans they’ve claimed to champion while feeding the plutocracies that leave them behind.

They were against big government; against what they saw as federal tyranny.

Trump and his gang prance around, pretending they’ve come to slay the bureaucratic Leviathan, to liberate the people from the tyranny of big government.

For 43 years, that vision for abolishing the education department - backed by members chafing at "big government" control over state issues - went unrealised.