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At it's core, yes, absolutely.
It should have checks and balances. The problem is that those checks and balances rely on people to take action. As you've stated, in this case, Congress should be the ones to stop unlawful power grabs by the President and start the impeachment process.
This shows very clearly that the people who are tasked with the duty of keeping those checks and balances in place are either unable to act (Democrats), or unwilling to act (Republicans). This sad reality means that the system is fundamentally broken to the point that it is liable to collapse. Trump/Musk/Vance are already making large swaths of the American population very unhappy with what they've been doing in the first 100 days. The only alternative to four+ years of this is basically a revolution at this point. Given how many "fans" they're making in the Whitehouse, that possibility doesn't seem impossible.