Ultimately, "we the people" are suppose to be the correcting mechanism. When the branches of government are unable or unwilling to restore the balance of power we can and should do something about it.
However, The Following has become an enabling force preventing correction. Mitch McTreason's hideous abuse of power in denying Garland a confirmation hearing comes to mind. The correcting mechanism the people hold is to punish such fundamentally anti-democratic acts by voting the perpetrators out of office. The problem being MAGAist's celebrated McTurtle's corruption. Which begets more corruption.
I don't know who said it, but the idea that the nation can survive differences of opinion, but if cannot survive differing sets of "facts".
The billionaire owned right wing media has been lying to their listeners/viewers for decades, as have their pastors and evangelical leaders, demonizing Democrats as "communitsts" and the mainstream media as "biased".
All of the Republican factions have a different agenda, but NONE of those factions have the best interests of the American PEOPLE first and foremost.
Evangelicals are pushing for a white Christian Nationalist government.
The KKK and the Nazi's want a white supremacist government where women and minorities know their place.
The billionaires like tax cuts and economic crashes which further enrich them. So they lie about immigration, the economy, and make all sorts of false accusations against Democrats, while supporting openly criminal anti-democratic forces, backed up with foreign propaganda from China, Iran and Russia.