Yes it does.
This only ends one way, as history has shown over and over and over.
Cromwell, Pinochet, or Suharto?
Minimum damage, if we're very lucky. Long-lasting disaster, much more probable.
I don't see any way out: either dictatorship or the nation breaks up into two or more smaller countries. Whether there will be another civil war... who knows?
Although I do fancy a Cromwell-type telling Congrees and Obama that they have been too long here and done no good!