“But over time, the executive branch grew exceedingly powerful. Two world wars emphasized the president’s commander in chief role and removed constraints on its power. By the second half of the 20th century, the republic was routinely fighting wars without its legislative branch, Congress, declaring war, as the Constitution required. With Congress often paralyzed by political conflict, presidents increasingly governed by edicts.”
Listen, I voted blue for 30 years and watched them steadily run to the right so hard the party leadership is sitting in Reagan’s lap now, primarying candidates does not change the system because all of the candidates are just puppets hanging from the same set of strings (otherwise they don’t have the funding to get (re)elected.)
Also you definitely can change the government without the will of the people, Trump’s doing a pretty fair job of that while his supporters go ‘I was in favor of deporting the bad people not my mom!’ or ‘I was in favor of firing the lazy government employees not me!’.