And if I were former Amb McFaul, I think I'd be getting my papers ready apply for asylum in Canada and planning a 'vacation' in Ottawa (or in Northern Minnesota. The US is already a pre-approved country for political refugees in the Canadian immigration system.
How do I know that? Because I researched it myself in January 2017.
No US citizen has been approved as a political refugee, but the mechanism is there.
Kinda 'Handmaid's Tale' isn't it? Americans needing to flee north.