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My suspicion here is the same as my general answer below:
There is some other important issue or group of issues here that you are missing in which "small government conservative" aligns more closely to "big government social progressive" than "small government social progressive". Likely one where the matter is not publicly debatable for one reason or another. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the 'communist' backlash. Your final assertion there is precisely the sort of thing that can be seen as falling into that category...
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