I don't really think that the political system of the US is actually broken
In fact, many people around me now really talk about how robust, resilient and resistant it is after Trump has been elected the US "champion". Trump kinda seems like a random dude who managed to make it to the top somehow, but the system obviously won't let him destroy itself. We have seen his executive orders mainly ignored, courts openly defying him, and he does seem to care, after all, otherwise he would be quickly displaced if he is unpopular (which seems to be the case) or just assassinated like Kennedy by the CIA (if he were)
It might help to talk a little about general areas where the political structure is broken.
Elon Musk's Space X budget is between 10 and 1000 times smaller than NASA's budget. Space X is constantly innovating and progressing space technology despite having a budget that is tiny in comparison to NASA's. While NASA spends many times more what Space X does without producing much in the way of postive tangible gains. This is one indication of how broken, inefficient and wasteful the US political system is.
In the US public schooling system, some schools have per student costs which are near to the cost of Harvard tuition. Another example of an broken, wasteful and inefficient state run program. Private schools in the USA are always far superior to state run public schools in terms of cost, performance and overall educational standards.
In terms of defense, the united states spends more on military funding than any country on earth. Yet, looking at recent news, it seems russia has superior military technology in some areas. One example of this is russia's new zircon hypersonic missiles which are nearing production. The united states, despite spending more than 10 times more on defense than russia, is nowhere near having hypersonic capable conventional missiles or ICBM's while russia will have both, shortly.
America's healthcare system is the most inefficient, wasteful and expensive on the planet. All of these inefficiences are not random, isolated, occurrences but rather symptoms of a broken political system.
There could be a reason why the united states military appears designed to be as fuel inefficient and expensive as possible. New US warplanes like the F-22 and F-35 have wings which are as small as possible to make them as fuel inefficient as possible. While russian warplanes typically have much larger wings and much better fuel efficiency. The same with tanks. The abrams M1 is equipped with a gas turbine which can be extremely fuel inefficient in comparison with the diesel engine other countries like russia use in their own tanks.
Is it an accident that many american industries like healthcare and products like wartime hardware are purposely built to be as inefficient and expensive as possible?
The F-35 program cost more than a trillion dollars, likely due to the political system being broken. A country like russia with a political system that is not dysfunctional could probably have built the same aircraft at a fraction of the cost.
Trump is doing some good but to fix the problems we have, we must first be willing to admit these problems exist.
That is not so easy for many.
