I believe that is the author’s point. When the inevitable chaos and tyranny show up, there is no one on the field to defend the Rule of law and the constitution.
IMPOverished third worlders are overwhelmed
Mexico’s democracy might have survived if their monarchy were still there to provide the proper checks and balances
Impoverished 3rd world rulers are thieves and usurpers whose population cowers under foot due to the lack of liberty and means to effect it. The largess given to such places becomes currency ad power held closely and manipulated to continue the abuses. Somalia 1990s.
Believe me, that is the goal of all the worlds governmental systems, it is just the checks and balances and moral fiber of the legitimate voting/speaking enfranchised population. Disarm America ( if you could) and you would see tin pot dictator policies rampantly harming those who trusted it to be beneficent, let alone the dissenters.