It's not like people who carry out a coup say "We are now seizing power illegitimately". They say "We are stopping the big steal", "we are counting all the legal votes", "we are protecting / restoring the constitution" or such shit.
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Yes, some of this lot explicitly want a revolution. I wonder if in modernity coups are quite often unlike ancient ones, in that they may be inspired by utopian sentiment rather than by appeals to restore some idealized past?
In the rhetoric and ideology I've seen from interviews, there's a lot of 'taking America back' or (of course) making America great 'again' so I think the idealized (invented, really) past is probably operative in this case for a lot of the insurrectionists.
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But it's a version of the past so clearly divorced from the actual past in some cases that, when described, it feels utopian. I think there is a lot of unacknowledged borrowing there in terms of symbolism and such from other utopian revolutionary movements.
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Interesting. I suppose eighteenth century revolutionaries mobilized symbols from the past to utopian ends too. (Including, ironically a Senate, a Capitol and the fasces...)
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