On When the Leader of a Country Tells His (or Her) Constituents that His Patience Is Beginning to Run Thin with Them, the Odds of that Ending In Any Way Other than with a Wholesale Curtailing of Individual Rights Is Probably Naught

Of course if the citizens were to push back a little that would certainly help. I just don't see that on the horizon (a significant percentage of the people seemingly enjoying their oppression), sadly.