

Not really, no. What they should have done day one is enact military law in the US, not martial law, and forcibly remove every single elected and appointed official to be tried publicly at the Hague and streamed to the entire world.
Lets be honest if we’re going to be dreaming about what should have been.

Mussolini had popular support throughout his term as dictator. Just because it’s a dictatorship doesn’t preclude popular support, and all dictatorships have some form of democracy embedded within them since they’re all based on western roman governments.