Why don't they just declare themselves rulers for life and suspend all elections? That's practically what they want, total domination.
America has a safeguard for such things called the Second Amendment.
The weapons that the Second Amendment allows us do not fare well against flamethrowers, tanks, B-2 bombers, or atom bombs.
We may need a revolution much like those in central and Balkan Europe in 1989. I will not shed tears for an American Ceausescu,
The real safeguard for democracy is people willing to lie down in front of a tank.