There's a problem inherent in your assertion that "the system works" and we need to trust the system.

That was my perspective when Trump initially took office. The "system" should block most of his excesses.

Unfortunately, those "systems" are agencies, mostly run from the top by political appointees who seem to be dismantling the watchdog groups and controls whose primary function lies in making sure the system is working as intended.

The system can't protect us from environmental excess when environmental regualtions are repealed, discarded, or simply ignored.

The system can't protect us from another banking "too big to fail" fisaco when the laws (already weak to begin with) are revoked or, again, simply ignored and unenforced.

Nor can the system control someone when those controls are actively blocked, when investigations into malfeasance are blocked, and when the penalty for speaking out against those things results in termination.

Indeed, when one of Trump's major concerns lay in installing a head of the DOJ whose primary goal wasn't "justice" but shielding the president from any and all of the ramifications of his actions, both past and present...

Then, I'm afraid, my "trust in the system" is somewhat lacking.

It has inertia, true, but subject it to enough sustained force and it will change direction.

I would say it's just simply physics... but then you'd have to also trust the science...