When A republic Falls - what comes Next?

The idea of a "stable Republic." The Founders (especially in Federalist No. 57) argued that the "Great Security" for a republic isn't just the parchment of the law, but the Civic Virtue of the people.The Founders didn't just worry about a King; they worried about a "Demagogue"—a leader who gains power by appealing to the passions and prejudices of the people rather than their reason.Abraham Lincoln famously warned that a republic like ours cannot be destroyed from the outside; it can only collapse from within."If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." — Abraham Lincoln"A Republic is the only form of government that requires its citizens to be its own police. When we stop pledging our allegiance to the process and start pledging it to the person, we have already moved into the 'Aftermath' we are discussing here.”