Short answer, no. The federal government will never be as small as it was before Wilson.
I agree. We were winning with the Tea Party when we were following the model as set forth by the Founding Fathers, but we see every day how active everybody wants to be. Nobody actually wants to win. They know the formula, they know what it takes (activity), they’ve rejected it.
I really miss Rush, but I also really miss Andrew Breitbart. Andrew made everybody want to go out and get involved in culture and be more like and act like the Founders. That’s the missing piece - a desire to engage in culture.
President Coolidge came after President Wilson.
Coolidge reduced the size of the federal government by half.
Then the Progressive Republican President Hoover came in and started increasing the size of government again. It dropped a bit after WWII, but then started up again. Since the 1960's there has been no looking back.