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That doesn’t work as a Republican controlled congress and president would then have impunity to perform whatever atrocities they like. It’s a big reason we have a coequal judicial branch.
It might not work for you but thems the rules.
Look, there are some unwritten rules in the system of government that exist de facto due to it's structure. One of them is that there is a balance of real power, not "balance of power" due to some document saying so, but that these groups, factions, institutions in government have power distributed in such a way that it ensures the continuity of the state among other things. For example, the court can basically rule anything unconstitutional, and the president appoints the court. If the court rules something like free speech isn't protected, this deligitimizes the court and the government loses real power. If the president packs the court, this delegitimizes the government and so on. They don't not pack the court because they have integrity, they don't pack the court because it would reduce their legitimacy and mandate. Politics in it's truest sense is taken into account in the encoding of the machine.
The more we turn it into a team game the more likely what you're talking about becomes true. When the parties have to feign a loyalty to a higher virtue, the president can't just commit atrocities because his party controls the congress. His own party members have to impeach him to maintain their power. But when it is reduced to a team game they're more likely to be able to maintain political viability by doing just that.
Our government has the integrity that we have, and IMO it doesn't have much integrity left, because the power center, not on paper but real power, moved due to architectural changes behind the scenes that were made during world war 2, what we are living with today is the inevitable outcome of decisions made then.