The Russians fear it. Chaos in government. Many nations around the world have had the same problem. A “Time of Troubles” brews and rears its ugly head. What to do?

Whether it is a monarchy or a long-lived democracy, stability can only be achieved if the ground rules are understood and accepted by all. In the 1790s, the French Directorate went guillotine-crazy, hacking the heads off countless “opponents” of the ever-changing regime in power until Napoleon took over and put an end to that. Reverse the numbers and check out the 1970s. American streets were quiet nationwide, particularly in Washington, as President Nixon was forced out of office and Gerald Ford was slotted to take over. The difference? In America, people knew the score and accepted it. They accepted that Nixon had to go, but that the Republicans were still, legitimately, in power. And that made all the difference.

It helps to have a fair-minded mass media on your side. During the first Trump administration, the media did everything they could in the Russia Collusion hoax to derail the legitimate president. They did grievous harm to the acting Commander-in-Chief. That is what bias gets you. The media, which has always been an ass-licking servant of the Left, hated this one Right winger more than usual and set out to get him. (Note: I am neither right wing nor left.) The media’s tone was one of outrage that the man was even elected. You could see their crestfallen expressions on Election Night on TV when they were counting up electoral college votes. Even then, the media sensed a bully in their midst — a fox in the henhouse. Correctly so, it turns out.

Donald Trump is relying on civil law in America to save him. Why not? It’s already dismissed all those “lawfare” suits against him that were churning their way up through the courts. (Thank you, Supreme Court. POTUS gives SCOTUS a big sloppy kiss.) The President Of The United States has lots on the agenda and to get them accomplished he needs a legal system that is disciplined, fair-minded and equitable in a way the media wasn’t the first run around. Is he gonna get that?

Doubtful.

The Left has made its march through the institutions. First, the took over Academia. Next came the Media. Then the government bureaucracy itself, the so-called Deep State. Even the corporate world, a haven for renegade right wingers everywhere, might as well dip its toe in pink and paint a small, cute gay pride flag on the floor of the corner office.

This is rather ironic, because true left-wingers number at most no more than 20% of the population, just as their opposite wing numbers no more than 20%. Most people vote opportunistically. That’s how Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau got into power. In Turdo’s case, he was seen as the princely heir to a popular Prime Minister, his father Pierre Elliott. Castreau did well for a well, too, only goofing up on the rioting truckers during the Big Vaxx Crackdown.

In Barack Obama’s case, “Hope ‘n Change ‘n Hope” was believed by the opportunists, who figured, what the hell, what could possibly go wrong? Obama’s bland presidency — prefigured by his equally unremarkable purring um’ing voice — suggests that blandness, like Carter in the Seventies during the age of wild, swinging disco, is no detriment to a workable Presidency.

The stability which Trudeau and Obama labored under was a gift from the gods, a heritage blossoming of the Anglosphere which Father England makes sure all his offspring gets. The English have always been good at government, rather better than the Russians, who killed the Czar’s family.

Stability is the name of the game. In a democracy, the elites have to play along. In monarchies, this isn’t always the case. You can always kill whomever the Regent is guarding. In democracies, the crowd is yay thick for aspirants to the throne and there’s no way to kill all of them off.

If your nation has been prone to social disturbances (not just actual revolutions) you can count on problems down the line. Weimer Germany ran into a big one in the form of Adolf Hitler, who Hindenburg selected as Chancellor when Hitler pouted and wouldn’t cooperate. Then Hitler ran the Enabling Act through the parliament and got himself Super Head Prime Leader’ed. This lack of stability doomed the nascent German democracy. (Had Hitler died in the trenches of World War I, the German democracy may have hardened into a workable polity that could reproduce itself. But he didn’t. Sucks to be you.)

The lesson? Don’t play fast and loose with the facts, don’t cheat, don’t be biased, DO trust one another, DO rely on precedent, and most of all…

Trust the People.