My point is that there's no legitimate solution outside of what I've stated. Either guardrails like courts and some level of bureaucracy will hold and they'll spend 4 years thrashing against those guardrails, still doing a ton of damage in the mean time, or they'll simply enact their will a la Jackson's challenge to the courts and we'll have a very different government and country at the end of those 4 years.

Nothing I said relies on magical thinking. I personally don't think there's any help coming. This administration has a will to power and are going to exercise it. They want to dismantle the government and so they're going to do it. Obviously someone can always take illegal or unprecedented action to deal with the situation, but not mentioning that fact doesn't mean someone is engaging in magical thinking.