General Discussion

I would suggest that works only when the political leadership supports the peoples' position, e.g. The Civil Rights Act of 1964. The President was a Democrat and both chambers of the Congress had massive Democratic majorities. Which is not to say I disagree with the value of the ongoing protests against the Trump agenda but his average approval rating is still near 50%. The crazy people who elected him, still support him.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html#

And when you add the intimidation factor by Trump in cowering the GOP lawmakers' actions, the power of the people is toothless.

I think Trump actually believes he can personally run the government and will eliminate federal workers and agencies to the point the government can't effectively function; after which time he'll make daily decisions on what the government does and just tell the Cabinet members to "make it so."

As a point of fact, he's already doing that...