This would be a tremendously unpopular move, both among Republicans and Democrats. It would be extremely ill-advised, and lead to massive civil disobedience and widespread non-compliance, with expensive and time consuming headaches in enforcement.
Somehow I can’t see it happening.
Since you bring it up, actually I can see it happening expressly for the reason it would cause massive civil disobedience nationally. The scenarios are near endless mind you, but the end result is clear: You want peace in the streets? Then the President needs to be a dictator to have the power to stop all of the rioting, looting, etc...
What I think though that our politicians and President Obama have forgotten is one crucial thing.... They receive their massive power and funding from the “consent of the governed”. Take away that consent and they are nothing but the the thugs and barbarians inside the the gates.
Could this be the manufactured ‘crisis’ that Yuri Bezmenov warned of to follow the decades of ‘destabilization’?
Obama would in the end have to enforce it like Stalin.
I remain confident that even that scenario would not end well for Obama.