It's not that they suddenly love big government, it's that they don't actually think... period. Politics to these people has nothing to do with actual reality, and none of these people actually give a single thought about how politics actually impact their own lives. These people treat politics like a sports team. They are Republicans, so they're on team Red. Everything their team does is automatically good, because that's their team. Everything the other team does is bad, because that's the other team.