This has happened maybe 3 times in the history of the United States... I am sure the each time it happened, tweaks to the existing rules were made to try to prevent it from happening again. That is how things usually work. There is no way to realistically prevent something like this from happening without other unintended negative consequences.
Perhaps some perspective on how ostensibly democratic institutions are constructed? There are always risks when you have the need of some kind of consensus building. The rules of democratic institutions are typically created under the assumption that everyone will at some point, operate in good faith. This is the problem that we are facing here. The Republican Party has allowed itself to be captured by extremists who are not operating in good faith, but seek power at any cost.
The actual problem is that we have a large percentage of the American electorate that doesn't understand or pay attention to what the representatives they elect are doing, AND/OR they approve of their actions.
I know this is my own Liberal mentality and bias, but I think that if people were better informed and interested in history and politics, that Conservatism would be a fringe idea. Instead of knowing all the drama from the latest game show, or all the stats from the last football game, or which celebrities are feuding, people might understand that lowering taxes on the wealthiest people leads to either shifting the burden of society onto the rest of us, or to programs that are necessary to safeguard people's lives being cut or severely crippled.
That is why Benjamin Franklin, when asked "Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?" He replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it" The emphasis should be on the YOU. The beginning of the Constitution says, WE THE PEOPLE, not "We the House, or The Senate, or The Government. We elect people to represent us and work out policy, but we cannot simply act indifferent or choose foolishly (people like Boebert, Greene, Gosar, Biggs, Gaetz, and Santos have NO business being an any position of power). It is not simply up to the elected to make everything work. We have to be involved.
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