the problem is he's made the military complicit already. they're already doing Duterte-esque extrajudicial killings of random Venezuelan people in the Caribbean. For anyone unaware, Duterte is currently imprisoned awaiting trial at the Hague for extrajudicial killings of suspected drug traffickers when he was president of the Philippines.

To sidestep the partisan side of this, I encourage everyone here to read about other regimes in the past century and how they came to power in order to build up your pattern matching ability.