Or we nuke the authority of the executive branch to write laws of any sort and force Congress to fix itself. Republicans play exactly the same "we can only get

Or we nuke the authority of the executive branch to write laws of any sort and force Congress to fix itself. Republicans play exactly the same "we can only get anything done through the presidency" game with their base and would be just as hampered at delivering anything useful if the executive were stripped of its accumulated powers. The growing administrative state created Congressional deadlock, not the other way around—it changed the game and made the optimal move for either party be to hang everything on the presidency, killing compromise. The only path towards breaking the stalemate in Congress is eliminating the ability of either party to deliver anything through the side channels they found in the executive.