Pleased to welcome @mattyglesias to the dark sidepic.twitter.com/ey8bz4NiHm
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The scary thing is, despite the horrific implications for democracy, a LOT would be happy about a 'deep state' coup to oust Trump.
like maybe the first president to try and reel them in even a tiny bit
Probably won't? It already did. The only question is if the DOJ/FBI coup attempt was just because Trump is an unprecedented assbag or they'd run the same op on any non-establishment candidate... my guess is the latter, but we'll see.
Yes the latter
To some extent though, several U.S. Presidents have had hobbles placed on their administrations by carefully orchestrated 'near' coups. Clinton, Obama and now Trump have all faced unusual almost guerilla type warfare from people actively opposing them from inside the government.
JFK faced very strong opposition from the CIA-probably resulting in his assassination. MLK-same scene. LBJ's attempts at ending the Vietnam war were deliberately & effectively sabotaged by Henry Kissinger. Robert Kennedy-same as MLK. Carter was papered in by NYT, WaPost, media
A kind of dry run so to speak.
When it comes, the coup will be welcomed by most.
Do you mean the preemptive coup started by the FBI in 2016?
Well Trump is at least keeping the crony capitalism and corruption going, if someone like Sanders is elected though maybe a lot more likely, they really won't like that.
Whoa, this is a self-serving misread at best. He’s not talking about the FBI. He’s talking about the coup Trump himself & Cohen hinted at to circumvent transition of power or otherwise. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1106222538831609857?s=21 …
Matty is talking about Trump’s own words today calling for violence against political opponents. But we are the “alarmist” ones in the face of his actual words in the context in an ongoing wave of violence.https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/1106246470267617281?s=21 …
It's hard to imagine McConnell approving a single Bernie cabinet member. Could come as soon as 2021.
#CrazyTracey is back people. What do you do before you go on #Tucker that makes you sound somewhat reasonable Tracey?
If only.
This is coup is a bipartisan exercise to make sure another outside like @POTUS never rises up again. A few weeks ago the fmr fbi head told America of doj/fbi plot 2remove sitting prez. Nobody in the news (or doj?) deems it worthy 2follow up. @DonaldJTrumpJr
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