For the sake of argument, if the President were to dissolve the other branches of government in a coup d'état, he would need the military to back him up and violate their oaths to the Constitution in the process. Were this unlikely event to happen, Cruz and the other stalwarts would be interned "for their own safety" on a military base somewhere, along with perhaps most of Congress and the Supreme Court. Such a move would be accompanied by government agents going door to door, confiscating all arms "so that the violence from the Ferguson grand jury decision cannot lead to yet more violence."
So the question would be: Would the military back such a plan -- or would the military remove him themselves with their own coup d'etat? I don't know the answer. A worst case scenario would end up with factions of the military fighting each other in a nuclear civil war.
Obviously, I was being tongue in cheek with my comment, but half serious too.
I can’t say with any certainty what’s going to happen. I do half expect him to try to create the conditions where he can assume total control. He’s been laying the groundwork for years. Dividing the country on racial lines, the military by loyalty lines, the courts against the people, the police against the people.
He wasn’t expecting the election to go as badly as it did, so now they are in full crisis creation mode, play the cards you have and bluff the rest.
I suspect that the time’s not ripe for it.....yet.