It is an infection of said republic with permanent bureaucracy.You're preaching to the choir. I've been singing that song since 2004...literally.
Go Ahead, Just Believe...
As anyone who knows me can verify I've often railed about people who refer to our government as a Democracy when it is a Republic. It seems that there is a movement, with all of the "each vote counts" hullabaloo and the calls for the removal of the Electoral College, to bring about actual Democracy in America, yet that too won't make a difference. Because, and I hate to burst the bubble of those desiring a Democracy, and it doesn't matter what form of government is in place, we all face a more deadly peril that needs to be taken care of no matter which side of the political spectrum one may come from. And, scoff as you will (I've got flame proof Skivvies), that peril is Bureaucracy, for that, in fact, is what America has become...a Bureaucracy. A body of nonelective government officials, administrative policy-making groups, and government by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority.
The Constitutional Republic is an old structure, and it has termites.
A good spraying of some Schedule F when Trump gets back in is in order.
Our elected officials may not be ones we approve of, but Bureaucrats are there forever. We can get rid of one group, but the other is thoroughly entrenched behind their desks.
Now, if you're one of those folks who believe in the perpetual goodness of government and if you want to believe that these things are all being done for "the benefit of the American people", then "Go ahead, just believe"...