The system is working exactly as designed. The founding fathers intended it to collapse gracelessly into a zombie tribal apocalypse beyond a particular level of stress 
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Federalist Papers explicitly talk about how a minority can gum up the works and bring the system crashing down, but can't actually take over a fully functioning constitutional state:https://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/primary-source-documents/the-federalist-papers/federalist-papers-no-10/ …
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"If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote."
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