This poses another question thou: what about if the protests/movement is big enough to mean that the government is at fault, because the people, the real people

This poses another question thou: what about if the protests/movement is big enough to mean that the government is at fault, because the people, the real people in the streets wants something else? If you give that power to the government then you're cutting away a mean (coordinating protests at scale) to get rid of the Government if it's really needed.