Interesting analysis but the situation is modified by the fact that one side is using the “deadlock” to further its own ends. Trump was going to face fanatical institutional opposition from within the permanent government just as Reagan and Bush did. The Obama-Clinton conspiracy merely focused it and gave Trump a visible handle to be able to cripple it more certainly. The Head of the snake, instead of being obscured in the cols of the body has reared up and bared its fangs, the better to identify the leadership and cut it down.
Let's be honest, there is no 'our side' in DC, they are all Uniparty.
Even those who were elected to 'drain the swamp' and 'end the deadlock', they are not effective (so far), and they face more objections from the Ryan/McConnell wing than the real Dem wing.