There's a simple solution to this: simply vote for those who plan on reducing the government, not just 'stopping growth'.
But the thing is, Republicans as a group don't want to do this. They want to use the state to enforce their viewpoint. So do the Democrats. Who wins? The Deep State.
BTW, I'm not talking about the social stuff. Even winning on the social stuff won't help the republicans any. My issue is that they constantly increase government. Social stuff doesn't ratchet to near the extent that gov bureaucracy does, because even in a holding pattern, the bureaucracy still does constant dps.
For an analogy, let's say "how far you go is how shitty things are". Then your current speed is how shitty you are making them, etc. Adding Bureaucracy is accelerating. That's a third order effect which permanently increases the speed at which everything will become shittier.
And republicans consistently vote for it. Because they like the deep state. Honestly, the funny thing about RINOs is that really, if most R politicians are RINOs, doesn't that in some sense make them the real R's, and the rare actually good pols the RINOs, using the name recognition to get something actually good done for once?