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You can at least remove the pursestrings from the executive by changing Congress from the rubber-stamp it currently is.

Maybe, but Trump is already violating plenty of Constitutional and statutory "pursestrings", and so far Republicans have been quite complicit in the process. Even with a reduced presence, they are likely to keep ~34 senate seats [0][1] which is enough to continue protecting him from justice.

How would/should our system recover if a President commits all sorts of crimes with the support of 34 senators?

(Bonus fun fact: The theoretical minimum popular support needed for 34 senators would be 3.6% of the population.)

Between the Epstein stuff and the economy, if it starts to look like Trump is going down Republicans in Congress will start bailing like rats leaving a sinking ship. They may be amoral, but they aren't stupid.

Eventually, but the last 10 years are the story of me constantly overestimating them, so I think we should err on the side of pessimism.

Heck, if would be very difficult to craft any factual account of political events these days that Me-of-2005 wouldn't dismiss as mad ramblings.

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