Where does he go from here?
You're the POTUS under these circumstances. There's no 'right or wrong' answer, @INVAR
Tell us how you could save our Republic...under any means.
The Romans tried to get back the idea of a Republic after Julius - you know how that turned out.
I think we are far too gone to salvage the idea of a Republic. I would love to be proven wrong for the sake of my own posterity. But the reality is too many make their money off a fascistic relationship with DC - and money talks and everything else walks. I saw how corruption works in the halls of power in Cook County, IL. There is no way to end such rot than to nuke the site from orbit just to make sure it's dead. It infects everything.
Another reality is that more than half the population wants a nanny state, more than half of them are dependent on government subsidy and we have a virtual open borders policy with a debt more egregious than we can possibly pay back in several lifetimes. The consequences of all of this we have not even begun to feel yet.
We would literally have to start over - and that is not gonna happen without this people taking a risk that no one wants to contemplate taking. We are not the mettle of people our forbears or grandparents were. We no longer value the things that maintain a Republic. Hell, we cannot even agree among ourselves how to define liberty.
John Adams was prophetic in terms of where we now find ourselves. Of course realizing where you are and the reality of the situation is the first step to actually taking measures to rectify where you have arrived.
"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it." - John Adams, July 7th 1775
