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I get the frustration, but just because Trump has found ways to game the system, doesn't mean throwing the system out, is going to be any better. Once both sides abandon the rule of law, then there is nothing left to keep shit from going way off the rails.
So, unless you are fully prepared to go to actual war to solve your problems, the legal system is still your only option. And despite what you might think, that system has been holding him back this entire time. He is losing far more cases in court than people realize. It's just that the media covers his wins more than his many losses...because his wins are scarier. And scary gets more clicks. And even when most of his wins get quickly overturned again, they simply don't get talked about anymore.
The bottom line comes down to "what kind of country do you want to live in?" One where whoever is in charge at the moment can just unilaterally declare their enemies to be criminals and summarily punish them, without due process...or one where you have the right to defend yourself in court against that kind of tyranny. If your solution to Trump, is to just be more like Trump, then all you're really doing is fighting for a system exactly like the one he wants.
If you want a system that stands in opposition to his methods, then you can't just use his own methods to oppose him.
You're not making a bad argument. Just the wrong one.
The system we have is now whatever Trump wants it to be. Going back to the system we had previously would now be just as radical as changing it into one that actually benefits us.
The system we had lead to Trump. Period. Why would you want that again?
Ask yourself: when should we go back to exactly?
Back to before the Patriot Act robbed us of our constitutional right to privacy?
Back before no child left behind made our graduating high schoolers functionally illeterate?
Back before Citizens United allowed corpate power to influence every single election for decades denying you minimum wage, universal Healthcare, or literally anything that would detract from corporate profits over public welfare?
Back before Reaganomics then?
Maybe further back before the business plot of 1933 to overthrow the government in place of business nepotism?
Or maybe before all the Tariffs we passed in the 1920's that accelerated the great depression?
100 years later we literally have the same problems. Just without the benefit of actually stopping them from destroying our government.
Half the white house is missing. An elected congress person isn't being sworn in. Our own military is in our cities and it's to protect masked police deporting some citizens with no due prosses.
This is not a future we reached by mistake. It is a future that was inevitable given the limitations of our existing system, combined with the centuries sociopaths have had to game it. We should not go back to it. It will just lead us here again.
It would be far better to use as a model for a better system. Certainly many other countries already have. But do not let nostalgia blind you to the fact that the problems in the system we have are inherent, and they are not fixable from within using the systems tools. They allow for exploits to grow, and after a hundred years, fail entirely in containing them effectively.
During WW2, a very difficult decision was made to use nuclear weapons. Killing hundreds of thousands to stop millions from dying. If they were not dropped the losses in the south pacific would be well over 8 million dead.
The argument you are currently making, given the WW2 context, is for us not to drop the bomb. Despite us already being at a point where Orange Hitler is about to destroy Snap benefits killing millions more than USAID closing and COVID already have.
There is no more normal course of action given the current situation. And there hasn't been for quite some time. Just because Democrats haven't noticed that in decades, doesn't mean they ever will. This article confirms they won't, and was written as PR for people like you to believe otherwise.