The problem we have is that our Constitution was very carefully and effectively designed to create a dysfunctional government, one that would have great trouble doing much of anything. That’s the whole point behind checks and balances and all that.
It works reasonably well as long as what the government is trying to do is limited in scope.
However, in recent decades many if not perhaps most Americans want the government to do much more, similar to the activist governments of Europe and elsewhere.
But the Constitution prevents this from being done efficiently, so the government responds by rewriting the Constitution by judicial fiat or by just ignoring it.
I suggest we either ought to redesign our Constitution to one suited to an activist government (as we are allowed to do by the Constitution itself) or return to a minimalist government role in society. This half and half stuff is quite literally killing us.
You stated that very well.