How would you change the Constitution to keep us from getting here?

Redefining the commerce clause to its originally-intended meaning (reversing Wickard and its progeny) would solve most everything on the federal level, from overbearing criminal authority to the bureaucratic state.

The only way to solve the problem of government is to remove power from the government and promote freedom and personal choices/responsibility.

-Term limits
-Some sort of firm restriction on the power and scope of the Executive Order

Term limits
Allow succession

Repeal direct election of senators

No dual citizen public service/office

Feds collect taxes from states, not citizens

Or… go back to the AoC and start from there.

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This isn’t a democracy you fricking dumb arse.

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Those "rotten motherfrickers in government" aren't voted in?

Were you referencing only bureaucrats and appointed persons?

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Start with the 17th Amendment.

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Senators prior to the 17th Amendment were appointed by state legislatures and served at the states discretion. Restore that only modified with a mechanism to break deadlocks.

I disagree partly with this - narrowing the Commerce Clause risks stripping the federal government of its ability to address collective-action problems (civil rights enforcement, environmental protection, labor standards, and public health). States have historically failed to handle address these and I simply don’t trust them.

Additionally, simply removing government power assumes a level playing field that doesn’t exist, where “personal responsibility” can’t compensate for structural disadvantages like poverty, discrimination, or market concentration.

I am a Republican in principle, but as a trained lawyer I cannot agree government should be abolished. The problem isn’t government per se, but how to democratically constrain and deploy it to safeguard dignity, opportunity, and equal rights.

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narrowing the Commerce Clause risks stripping the federal government of its ability to address collective-action problems (civil rights enforcement,

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Civil Rights enforcement is authorized via the 14th Amendment. There isn't a need to look to the Commerce Clause for authority-jurisdiction.

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environmental protection

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State issue

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labor standards

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State issue

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Well, it kinda has turned into one…

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Naw the US has always relied on democracy in its government, even with the Articles of Confederation.

People just think they're being smart trying to create a binary situation and they come off looking like idiots every time.

But, my point in response to his comment remains. Politicians are elected by citizens. How do you propose regulating them out of government? To put this another way, how do you avoid giving DEMs the power to make Trump ineligible?

How about just enforcing it? There are thousands and thousands of examples of Democrats going against the constitution and people act like it's not a big deal. The constitution needs to be sacred and protected at all times