I care about this issue, and Norway of course has built an incredible social democracy. However, Norway is also able to do this because it's just a much smaller country. The U.S. is absolutely massive, both in terms of population and in terms of land area, and it is incredibly diverse. A lot of the problems in the U.S. just go away if you don't have to worry about the same scale or diversity of people. I absolutely want the U.S. to rise up to the AI crisis, and we're having major issues, but in the grand scheme of things, the U.S. still does a good job given the scale of its challenges, and I'm not sure Norway would do better.
People loose track of this a lot.
Massachusetts, the small state in the US, has a population 25% larger than Norway. The New Jersey suburbs of NYC, not even the whole state, has a population comparable to Norway.
Norway is cool, but it's not very useful as a guide for managing a country.