Wait, I'm going somewhere with all this:

Pictured: A charming festival where
communities come together and
pretend to burn a traitor to death.

Hey, it's the fifth of November which means tonight is Guy Fawkes Night! If you're unfamiliar, and I'm going to proceed as if you are regardless, it's the night British people celebrate the foiling of the Gunpowder plot by burning the conspiracy's most inept member in effigy. Because British people aren't all crumpets and Harry Potter you know. Anyway, the plot involved a group of anti-protestant conspirators who packed a bunch of explosives-filled barrels under the Parliament building, intending to blow up the government and King James I and then install Princess Elizabeth, James' daughter, as the new monarch.

"Watch it, peasant!"

-Noted Puppet Queen, Sara

If that plan sounds bananas, that's just because it was, to put it Britishly, batshit barmey. To sum up, this all hinged both on the rest of the country hailing the regicides who just blew up half of London as the right blokes for the job for forming a new government and the cooperation of Princess Elizabeth. You know, the nine-year old they planed to kidnap her after murdering her father and then marry off to a Catholic monarch so that she could spend the rest of her life as a puppet Queen? Yes, that Princess Elizabeth.

In many ways, this was history's most foil-able plot and everyone involved ended up gruesomely and publicly executed.

"Whaaaat? No, these aren't my thirty-six barrels 
of gunpowder...I'm just holding them. For a friend."

-Guy Fawkes, red-handedly

If the MAGA hat fits...

But I guess when you live in a monarchy and your leader bases their legal authority on God, gunpowder as a means of regime change probably looks like a reasonable option. Luckily for us, it doesn't have to come to that. Our leaders base their authority on winning elections or, failing that, eeking out a technical win by conning white people in electorally valuable states into thinking that they're the victims of social and racial injustice. 

But the important thing is we can get rid of them without resorting to ludicrous, explosion-based plots. Because this is America, where your vote counts...

...proportionately, based on a two-hundred year old system designed to give
underpopulated rural states exaggerated influence over national elections.