Thing is, it can only work marginally if it entirely goes against reality.

I mean it's true, you can always order everybody to stop breathing, and it's going to work for a while eventually. But at some point people will need to breath again. People holding their breath to death doesn't exist.

Or you can always make dope deals a crime, if half of the country relies on it to make a living then half the country are criminals, now what? Look at mexico

You can always claim there are 36 genders, if 90% of the country believes otherwise now what? Force it down everybody's throat and act surprised when they all turn against you and tell you to go choke on a bag of dicks by voting orange man?

I mean, soviet union could only last for that long. You can always claim you're god on earth and enforce it any way you can, if your country relies almost exclusively on fossil fuel exports to fund your projects, then your country relies almost exclusively on that. Once price start to collapse so goes the budget and that's the end of it.

Donny saved us, imagine if this lockdown happened under Obama or Side of Beef

Pick up that can.