Trump Can’t Pull Off a Coup
Because nobody likes him
I’ve gotten more than one email with instructions on “How to Stop a Coup” this week. The writers are responding to the story in a recent news cycle about how Trump won’t commit to a “peaceful transfer of power” if he loses the election. The emails have good advice, and maybe you should read this one, just in case. But I can’t help laughing when I imagine Trump running through the halls of the White House, trying to drum up support for an unlawful takeover.
Who is going to stand with him?
Not the military, whom he has derided at every turn, even going so far as to call people who serve in the armed forces “suckers” and “losers” and accusing the Pentagon of waging wars for profit.
Not the White House staff, which gets fired almost as soon as it’s hired, with more turnover than any administration in history (415 and counting), and each person released rushing to write a tell-all book about what a corrupt incompetent Trump is.
That leaves Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr. and his girlfriend Kimberly, Tiffany, Melania, and the My Pillow guy — basically the speaker lineup at the Republican National Convention.
Not the media, which he derides daily on Twitter and physically threatens at rallies where he encourages unruly crowds to retaliate against purveyors of “fake news.” It was “a beautiful thing” when cops fired rubber bullets at a journalist, he told supporters Sept. 18.
Not even the weaselly Republicans in the Senate, who once they get their second stolen seat (added to their one legitimate one) on the Supreme Court, will have achieved their lifelong dream of forcing women to bear children against their will, and so will have no use for Trump anymore.
I guess that leaves Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr. and his girlfriend Kimberly, Tiffany, Melania, and the My Pillow guy — basically the speaker lineup at the Republican National Convention.
Oh, yeah. And his supporters. The men who skulked around the Michigan statehouse with guns slung over their shoulders; the neo-Nazis with tiki lamps who paraded in Charlottesville; the half a million bikers who roared into Sturgis, South Dakota, creating a Covid superspreader event. They’ll happily join a coup if Biden is elected, asserting their right to skulk, parade and spread Covid over the rest of us.
Only problem is, just like Antifa, they’re a ragtag collection of eclectic troublemakers, not an organized group.
Besides, that’s not what Trump meant, anyway! According to this story in the conservative National Review, he was saying there would be a peaceful transfer of power at that press conference Sept. 23. He just wasn’t saying it coherently.
Democrats need to stop reacting to the clown show and put together solid plans to give healthcare to all, stop climate change, fix the criminal justice system, pass a minimum wage, throw out the Electoral College, take back the stolen seats on the Supreme Court, get big money out of politics, restore democratic ideals, release kids from cages, devise a humane immigration plan, tax obscene wealth, codify women’s right to decide whether to bear children, enact reasonable gun control, and otherwise make life better for all who live in the United States.
Now, please.
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