Fundamental core functions of government is roads, borders, preventing of violence(military and police), justice, and refereeing the economy.
Roads as you say are in disrepair.
Borders are wide open.
Military has been at war for how many decades? War exhaustion can't be higher.
Violent crime is vastly under reported. Police brutality seems to be at historic highs. Victim of violent crime? Dont call the police because when they show up, the situation gets worse. Antifa is burning cities down, in part due to police brutality.
Where's the justice? If your car or property is stolen, there's a ~90% chance you never see it again and nobody is caught. Arson is worse than that. Murder is the only violent crime which has a clearance rate above 50% but only barely. There is no justice.
Ref for economy? If financial crisis proved anything, they clearly dont.
The core function of government is clearly failed. Lets say we form the HN political party and we're going to fix this. We can't. Government debt to GDP is over 100%. The budget isn't in balance. The central bank is bankrupt; https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/central-bank-bala...