It is difficult for others to raise themselves to dominion in the same heroic manner, but when they succeed they preserve it without trouble.
The difficulties they experience arise in part from the changes they are obliged to introduce to establish their government upon a firm foundation.
Nothing is more difficult and dangerous, and the success of which is more doubtful, than the introduction of new laws. He who introduces them renders all those his enemies who lived satisfied under the former code, and is sure to find but feeble defenders in those who are to be benefited by the new system; and this supineness arises in part from the fear of their adversaries, to whom the ancient order of things is beneficial, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who have no confidence in new measures except those founded on long experience; whence it follows, that when the enemies to the new order of things find an opportunity of attack, they use it with zeal and enthusiasm, while the others defend it with indifference; so that the prince encounters as much danger from his defenders as from his enemies.
In 2020 we were all supposed to start believing non credible politicians and media that the healthy had suddenly become vectors of disease and that the world needed to be perpetually under house arrest? Who came up with this audacious nonsense?
Everyone they got to push this nonsense on us got exposed as a traitor. (Perhaps that was part of the plan: To disconnect popular people from their audiences because popular people are a threat to shadow rulers who are no longer hidden and are extremely reviled.)
What a Pyrrhic victory.