Historically the answer has been violence. Just ask czar Nicholas, or Louis XVI. The sad thing is that we as Americans have forgotten what freedom actually is, and what it actually means. It's been conflated with doing whatever you want. People have been tricked into handing over power to "fix" things when in reality we've had the power to do so all along. It's getting to the point now where we've let two monolithic parties completely corner all political power, and it will be very hard to wrench it away again. Once the Democratic levers are fatally weakened there is no other route bit violence left. Americans have just sleep-walked their culture to this point.
Historically, life became even worse after the violence. In some countries it did eventually improve after decades of more violence, in other countries it lead to very long periods of totalitarianism.
So, be careful what you wish for! With advanced surveillance tools of today and the resources to add more, a totalitarian regime would be PERMENANT.
