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As a one-time student of Con Law, I will respectfully disagree. It's clunky, vague, out of touch with the settlement patterns of the country in the last 230+ years, and willfully ignores that political parties and bad actors are a thing. I have come to resent the lionization of the document and its drafters. The basic outline of a democratic republic is laudable and has somehow more or less endured, but it is what it is: a good start from clever provincial lawyers whose ideals outstripped their personal practices and helped make it work better than many would have thought, but who were still absolutely dealing with the issues and expectations of elites in the 1780s.
For goodness sake, judicial review isn't even in there. John Marshall basically made it up. So much with the US Constitution depends on norms and assumptions, yet we worship it like a holy text (e.g. "our own inadequacy to follow its teachings"). This makes it a HUGE problem when some smarmy asshole decides norms don't matter and the Supreme Court has (rather hypocritically) decided that only the text matters. At a minimum, we need some serious "patch" amendments to lock down things that no one thought anybody would be a big enough asshole to test.
The thing is, for the past 50 years, it seems everyone has become afraid of touching it. There have been so many ammendments, the constitution is made to be changed, get on with it
In fairness, one of the issues is that there's an absurdly high bar to amend it, and the downright scientific polarization of our political parties in the last 50 years or so has meant that they're constantly fighting over the middle, meaning there is unlikely to be consensus without something deeply traumatic happening first. The ERA was our canary in the coalmine there, I think. Of course, this makes it even more absurd that SCOTUS has leaned hard into textualist analysis that is completely unsuited to running a complex modern nation-state with a creaky old constitution. We need to take a page or two from papa UK and enshrine certain norms and principals as constitutional matters without obsessing over fucking commas like we do now. The irony of course is that doing so would take a constitutional amendment.
I got a feeling that something akin to the Great Depression is coming soon, and that there will be a repeat of the late 20s early 30s… could a new Roosevelt even appear again today?
Not a chance. The right is too comfortable telling blatant lies, and the public is too eager to believe their lies for that to happen.