James Baker, the former FBI official currently on a media tour, gets very offended when anyone suggests that he was part of an attempted "coup." Of course that's not how these people would characterize their actions. But in totality, what they did 100% amounted to a "soft coup"
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Later, of course, the top person in the Justice Department and the top person in the FBI got together to plot extra-legal presidential removal schemes, such as "wearing a wire" and recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment on spurious grounds
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That's why I use the phrase "soft coup," because it doesn't require conscious intentionality at any given moment: it just reflects a widespread desire to use extraordinary tactics to impede the candidate, and then even remove him once he assumed office
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"Coup" gives the impression of a military brigade invading the White House and arresting the president. Obviously that didn't happen, and almost certainly couldn't happen. "Soft coup" better captures the broad scope of these unprecedented security state actions
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Stalinesque? yes Comesque? yes
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If they did it to Trump, you think they’re not doing it to Bernie and Tulsi?
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A coupis a coup. I wonder how often these unelected SOB’s have pulled crap like this off. Vanquish each and every one of them or worse.
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