So here we have a leader with collapsing support and plummeting poll numbers, threatening to ramp-up his use of executive authority and begin ruling even more like a dictator.
Meanwhile his opposition party sits idly by and lets him, mainly because their control lever is the power of the purse, and they living in quaking mortal fear of “shutting down the government”.
Historically unprecedented. No idea how it will work out, but future historians will be fascinated.