I agree that the original Constitution was written so that we would have a constitutional republic with three federal branches limited in power. However, since the Civil War, that has been incrementally dismantled.
In the twentieth century through progressive legislation we evolved into a more direct democracy when the election of Senators by state legislatures was discontinued and a federal income tax implemented which provided elected officials with access to huge amounts of money for the first time in US history. A professional standing military was organized and an intelligence agency created which has no legal controlling authority over it, except the elected executive.
Now in the twenty-first century, the executive branch has so engulfed the other federal branches through its bureaucracies, that not only do they legislate in spite of Congress, but they are hardly even accountable to the actual “elected” executive who is supposed to be their administrator. The gigantic military/intelligence industrial complex, which has become increasingly aggressive since the world wars, now swallows up more than the income taxes collected annually. Yet Congress’ only solution seems to be to fund ever larger defense budgets and create endless entitlements to keep the taxpayers pacified.
So when the Democrats (and Republicans, too!) scream RFKjr. is a threat to “our democracy” - they mean he is determined to end their dismantling of the US Constitution and cut off their supply of free monies.
Good post.