@joeinwynnewood keep in mind that a large reason Trump was elected and then reelected is because people were already experiencing that sort of thing in their real lives.
Regular folk had become less and less satisfied with how the government was going, and with that so many just gave up and elected the guy promising to flip the table.
So there's a confusion of cause and effect here. It's not so much because of what the Republicans are doing that people expect less from the government, it's because people experienced less from the government that they elected Republicans.
It's an important lesson to learn.