Henry the 8th was a bad dude.
When he wasn't allowed to remarry for like the tenth time, he responded by starting war on The Church, first by interfering in the ceremonies but when that didn't work he progressed to crueler and crueler methods (including torture.)
Around 1536, the people had had enough and marches of 40 to 50,000 men began coming for the king. But when the Duke of Norfolk issued these men a pardon and promised that Parliament would discuss their grievances, they dispersed and went back home.
The promises were not kept. Instead, in the weeks following their dispersal, the leaders of the men were found one by one and killed one by one. The king proceeded forward with even more power.
In this month of January, and all through the new year, expect the ruling class (including career Republicans) to make a lot of promises and assurances that things will change "soon" if we would just back off a little. Do not fall for these false promises.
If we stop pushing for even one day, they will come for us. We won, Trump won in a landslide. Until that is fully recognized and accepted, and we have had all the accompanying awards of victory - then we are not yet safe. They will start with our leaders and work their way down.
Happy new year everyone
In "Anabasis", Xenophon describes something similar. Cyrus hires a bunch of Greek mercenaries to attack his brother Artaxerxes. In the battle, his forces are victorious, but Cyrus is killed.
Artaxerxes sends for the mercenaries' leaders under false pretense of negotiation and kills them all.
The events that follow are known as "The March of the Ten Thousand", and was the basis of the 1970's film "The Warriors".