This what people don't understand that counter-insurgency teaches you fairly quickly: power is illusory.

Power is solely based on compliance. The only thing outside of persuading, appealing, negotiating, or inspiring... is coercion. You don't actually have power. It's granted to you with relatively little thought, and then can be taken away at a moment's notice. You will realize that power is an illusion when you point a gun at someone and you can see in their face that they simply couldn't care any less whether you kill them or not, and they find you to be simply annoying.

"Stop, or I'll kill you!"

"I don't give a shit."

^ It's not a good situation for the guy giving the orders. If you kill him, you still don't have any power over him. In fact, you have less power over him than you did before, because he can't comply when he's dead.

This is a very hard lesson to people who are used to being obeyed. Power is an illusion. This is actually why the Left is so obsessed with propaganda and symbols, the symbols and propaganda are the power. Not the policies. As soon as people stop seeing you as legitimate, then your power is gone.

Power will not be ripped from the establishment's hands. It will simply be lost because the establishmentarians will look down at their hands, and be stunned to realize it's not in their grasp (because it never was). The average person won't know this, because the average snowflake doesn't know it's in a blizzard. This will be a cascade failure, at least as big and as thorough as the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Priority #1 of the government should be to recognize the populist threat and contain it with symbolic appeasement. It's Fabian Socialist specialty, but the Fabians have come to a horrible realization that they've run out of time. The money isn't real, and the power isn't either, so the kingdom is built on it's own delusions of grandeur.