That is an unfair caricature of Republican. Who in turn make an unfair caricature of civil servants.

The position of most on the US center right is that because of governments unique power over our lives we ought to be very careful about what we allow them to do.

It often is bad and incompetent. Take one of the most left leaning cities in the USA, San Francisco. Not sure there is any metric where by it can be claimed they not bad and incompetent.