I'd like to see the first presidential address start out with:
"Well, I guess you elected me thinking I was yet another big government fascist, here to collect everyone's money and nationalize industries. Unfortunately for the lazy, the jealous, and bailout whores, I am a strict Constitutionalist and it's time to start letting people keep what they earn and give them their freedoms back."
Yeah, I know - but you asked what I HOPED for, not what I expected.
I expect BIGGER government, because the answer to failed big government is always, necessarily, more big government. I think Hayek predicted this in Road to Serfdom.
We'll watch government collect lots of money from the productive, and divert it to politically motivated government projects, and we'll call it "progress"
We'll repeat the mistakes that create the Great Depression. We'll continue massively inflating the money supply, creating government programs to compete with private industry by (laugh) "creating" jobs.
We'll rip some freedoms away from some people that don't need them, like those pesky gun owners.
When it fails, we'll grand speeches about how it failed because we simply didn't spend ENOUGH of taxpayer's trillions, we didn't have ENOUGH bureaucrats, and we need MORE big government programs - because that's why government always fails, there's just not enough of it.
Oh, and we'll buy it, too - hook, line, and sinker - and we'll vote for "more of the same", just like we did this time. Hope for change my ass, same establishment is running the show, folks - nothing new to see here.