Reading II.2, I would have to agree with you.

But the idea is appalling. Trump, together with 5 in 9 SCOTUS justices and 1/3 of Congress, could simply declare some sort of dire emergency (above the dozen or so that are in effect right now) and then decide to remain President indefinitely “during the emergency” — even suspend elections if he so chose — and what exactly could be done? Not impeachment, nor lawsuits — what recourse would law-abiding Americans have?

I attempted to find another country’s Constitution where the President and working together with a minority of one legislative body can flout any laws they choose, but I couldn’t find it in any other developed country.

It’s funny how my respect for the Constitution has fallen in the last thirty or forty years.

Between deciding that the phrase “a well-organized militia” was meaningless, or that speech and money were indistinguishable for the purposes of the First Amendment, or overriding great swaths of the Bill of Rights with the so-called PATRIOT Act, or effectively suspending the Fourth Amendment for anyone within a hundred miles of a border, and of course the Electoral College, rational enough in the eighteenth century but ludicrous in the twenty-first, there’s really not much protecting America from a rapacious and criminal government by a hostile and irrational majority like the one it has now.