“What’s he going to do, declare martial law?”
With the right “crisis” martial law is not out of the realm of plausability is it?
And the net effect would be to knock the Left's political machine back for a generation or more. It would be blindingly obvious to pretty much everybody who hasn't yet realized it, that the left is all about power and money and devolving the Republic as a whole to third-world status.
Short-term pain, long-term gain. They'd be making an enormous mistake.
FAR from out of the realm of possibility.
It is well planned and scheduled . . . learning all the lessons from Hitler, Mao, Stalin et all that they could.