Walking into Congress and declaring it dissolved, despite being underwater in the polls, hated by the troops, not being an embodiment of the General Will, having no popular/ extra-institutional base of power, causing what everyone would immediately call a Constitutional crisis, and being stuffed into a coat room locker while screaming that I control the troops, I control all the men with guns.
John Locke may have been a slave profiteer, a feudalist, and an insufferable nerd, but he was absolutely right about that whole "consent of the governed" thing.
Really hard to run a country when the trappings of authority fall away and your own cabinet refuses to listen to you.
Walking into Congress and declaring it dissolved, despite being underwater in the polls, hated by the troops, not being an embodiment of the General Will, having no popular/ extra-institutional base of power, causing what everyone would immediately call a Constitutional crisis, and being stuffed into a coat room locker while screaming that I control the troops, I control all the men with guns.
John Locke may have been a slave profiteer, a feudalist, and an insufferable nerd, but he was absolutely right about that whole "consent of the governed" thing.
Really hard to run a country when the trappings of authority fall away and your own cabinet refuses to listen to you.