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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.