1. Trump's refusal to acknowledge defeat, his stirring up of conspiracy theories, his incitement of street goons like the proud boys, his call for Republican state legislators to choose electors -- all of these amount too a coup, albeit a typically half-assed Trumpian one.
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3. This Defense One story deserves more attention than it got. Trump's Syria Envoy boasting about how they were able to deceive him into keeping troops in Syria. Very typical story of Trump era: an addled president empowering national security state.pic.twitter.com/WEln4XgjdT
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4. More thoughts on how Trump's laziness has weakened democratic control of foreign policy -- the coup that actually happened under his watch.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-coup-national-security/ …
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He's destroying our democracy and you're just enjoying the show? We might never recover from what trump has done to our national discourse. Sad that so many care so little.
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Let's be real; you'd call it a coup if he actually did a proper purge of the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies. Or "fascism" or some other meaningless political buzzword.
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He’s shown us holes, weak spots, that a competent authoritarian could use to tear up our country. We need to fix those ASAP.
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