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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Jan 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Oren Liebermann

    Trump had some of the components you need to pull off a coup (a docile political party, a rabid cadre of propagandized followers) but what he lacked was the support of the active duty military (although some individual troops, active & retired, participated). That scarce comforthttps://twitter.com/OrenCNN/status/1349101784300724225 …

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    "The U.S. military will obey lawful orders from civilian leadership, support civil authorities to protect lives and property, ensure public safety in accordance with the law ..." (2/5)
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      1. Gwen‏ @autonomy_6 12 Jan 2021
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        Scary to think what a second term would have allowed to fester.

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      2. Matunos  💉 💉 💉‏ @matunos 12 Jan 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        fulfilling Godwin's Law immediately, lemme ask: when did the Nazis win support of the active duty military?

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      3. Alan Pennue‏ @AlanPennue 13 Jan 2021
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        Hitler was their man from 1919 on.

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      2. man with opinions‏ @with0pinions 12 Jan 2021
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        It's clear that if you had a right wing authoritarian president who the military would actually respect, like Tom Cotton, they could probably pull it off. That's not at all a crazy scenario.

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      3. Fear Is Not Panic‏ @FearIsNotPanic 12 Jan 2021
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        Polling of the military shows fairly balanced politics. It's nothing like Law Enforcement.

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      1. Nick‏ @getyrtrouserson 12 Jan 2021
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        As Fiona Hill said, the op-ed from all the previous Secretaries of Defense (including Esper) laid down a marker. She (and they) might not have had concrete information about what was going on at the Pentagon, but they were hearing... things.

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      1. Ken Feinstein‏ @FeinsteinKen 12 Jan 2021
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        This is why defeating Trump was all that mattered. After four more years things would have been very different.

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      1. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 12 Jan 2021
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        If he were organized, he'd have spent four years putting people like Flynn into key positions. We're lucky Flynn got caught. We're lucky Trump is not organized.

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      1. The @ is right‏ @Bad_Sociologist 12 Jan 2021
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        Question however is, is this because this event really crossed a line with what they perceive as their duty or is this because of personal antipathy against Trump ?

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      1. angry_bardeen‏ @C_R_Mile 12 Jan 2021
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        Only took 6 days of crisis for the military to say something.

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