No. of Recommendations: 7
I got to work with a lot of really good lawyers in my DoD arc. One of them, we'll call him Isaac, headed an admin law arm that I interfaced with for items of gravity. I asked him about succession and those who denied reality. I can neither confirm nor deny that this was about 4.1 years ago...this is of course purely hypothetical.
Isaac sent me a paper from I think Columbia Law Review. There's a surprising number/high % of times that "modern" countries have leaders that don't want to cede power when they either lose an election or come up on term limits. We might engage in pearl-clutching or outrage, but it simply isn't that rare. And we all better act like this could happen in the US.
Frankly, the Department of Education really doesn't have much to show for its roughly half century history. We're hardly showing progress, compared to the rest of the world, in empirically comparable things. But this isn't how you scuttle it.