>By that logic, Congress is powerless against the President as well, as the President has the guns.
No, he doesn't. The military does. The military is sworn to uphold the Constitution, so if the President is impeached and his powers removed by Congress, the military has to follow Congress's orders, not the President's. Of course, the military could ignore the Constitution, which would be a coup, but then it seems unlikely that all the officers and enlisted would go along with it because they'd all be breaking their oaths as well, not just the top brass.
>This whole thing works due to the consent and demand of the people and the people they ultimately put in the government.
The people by and large supported debt forgiveness. The people by and large want health care and labor reform. The people by and large supported Roe V. Wade.
The Federalist Society controls SCOTUS and the will of the people no longer matters.
The people and their government accept that having a stable rules-based system does not always mean that policy outcomes match the vague preferences that pollsters sketch out.
The people voted for Trump who installed 3 conservative justices, and they vote for many GOP Congresspeople giving the GOP control of ~1/2 of Congress. Either the people are doing a horrible job of voting according to their interests, or there isn't as large a majority supporting those issues as you think.
Not to beat a dead horse but the majority of people didn't vote for Trump.
A rural minority of white conservative Christians are doing a good job of voting according to their interests in a system biased in their favor. But they're still a demographic and cultural minority overall.
There was less than 2% difference in the popular vote results. It wasn't some small minority that elected Trump, it was almost half. It's really strange how Democrat voters constantly, after all these years, try to downplay just how much of the nation supported and elected Trump; it's like they believe that by making people (and themselves) believe that it was some tiny minority, that almost half the American people actually like that con artist and support the awful things he and his party stood for.
Edit: ... it's like they believe that by making people (and themselves) believe that it was some tiny minority, rather than the fact that almost half the American people actually like that con artist and support the awful things he and his party stood for.
This whole thing works due to the consent and demand of the people and the people they ultimately put in the government.