At what point in a shutdown do people start talking coup?
I want a constitutional resolution of this shutdown in the worst way, but if the shutdown goes on long enough, thousands of government workers will face evictions, foreclosures, repossessions, prosecutions, and yes, hunger. If Trump and McConnell are seen to be agents of a foreign power intentionally damaging America, aren’t people are going to start asking, “why not?”
On edit: Thanks to everybody who responded. Too many to respond to individually. A few people imagined I was rooting for a coup. No way. I'd rather drive my car off a bridge into an ice-covered river. If enough people get scared shitless about the possibility, we might get that constitutional outcome that we (and the whole world) desperately need.
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HUD kicked out of their homes with no where to go in many cases.
Republican favored descriptions of the actual plot to overthrow FDR. Actually, testimony on the issue was credibly received by some on the McCormack Committee doing the investigation. In todays dollars, something like $60,000,000 was credibly committed by a powerful cliques of famed named titans.
Lead by Dupont, supported by WR Hearst, JP Morgan, Birdseye, Singer heirs, Prescott Bush, etc. These cliques hated progressive income taxation, shifting the gold standard, and liberal legislation in general. The right had popular political support notably from the Liberty League, Sen. Huey Long and Father Coughlin [radio fame], and other conservative political groups.
Smedley Butler, and FDR himself, were in a centrist political bind, with rw and facist groups on one side, and communists and left wing groups on the other. [A political bind somewhat similar to the relatively honest and straight James Comey bind, with resulting limited political support, which along with FDR's other responsibilities, and the quick release of the plot information accounts for some of the limited plot investigation, development and remedies against the coup attempt].
I have written most of this from memory. A google scan of course, has innumerable cites on the subject. Many of these are mainly interested in various perspectives, without much depth on the actual coup attempt.
To check my memory a did some scanning. One interesting scan was a 196pp Wesleyan honors theses from 2008, which was big picture, relatively recent, balanced, and a bit conventional overcautious, but overall good. I looked in particular for any newer clues of FDR's silence on the issue, but the theses was not that good. 
It would be 1981 all over again. Being fired from the federal government means you lose your retirement, and as part of the firing back then, all of those folks were banned for life from returning to the government (although that was later reversed years later).
And no, airports would NOT "close". They didn't close in 1981 when >70% of the air traffic controllers were fired. They just brought in other people to replace them (initially military controllers and older retired controllers). There was no TSA back then or anything like them either.
As it is, TSA IS actually doing something that other workers have done in the past as a protest (like cops or teachers) - call out sick. That can be as just as effective.
People who value democracy vote and certainly aren't willing to throw it away.
I also like your way of supporting what you believe in. Can't do without it.
Elegantly stated.
A scenario that I recall imagining might be the only thing that could stop the impending invasion of Iraq.
Banana republic stuff.
