Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun

[Celerity]

January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/



Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place. If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024. Thousands of votes will be thrown away, or millions, to produce the required effect. The winner will be declared the loser. The loser will be certified president-elect.

The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means. Given the opportunity, they will act. They are acting already. Who or what will safeguard our constitutional order is not apparent today. It is not even apparent who will try. Democrats, big and small D, are not behaving as if they believe the threat is real. Some of them, including President Joe Biden, have taken passing rhetorical notice, but their attention wanders. They are making a grievous mistake.

“The democratic emergency is already here,” Richard L. Hasen, a professor of law and political science at UC Irvine, told me in late October. Hasen prides himself on a judicious temperament. Only a year ago he was cautioning me against hyperbole. Now he speaks matter-of-factly about the death of our body politic. “We face a serious risk that American democracy as we know it will come to an end in 2024,” he said, “but urgent action is not happening.”

For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft. Elected officials in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and other states have studied Donald Trump’s crusade to overturn the 2020 election. They have noted the points of failure and have taken concrete steps to avoid failure next time. Some of them have rewritten statutes to seize partisan control of decisions about which ballots to count and which to discard, which results to certify and which to reject. They are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with the plot last November, aiming to replace them with exponents of the Big Lie. They are fine-tuning a legal argument that purports to allow state legislators to override the choice of the voters.

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excellent long-form article

[uponit7771]

1. J6 was *WORSE* than 911, the seriousness of the response from 911 attack didn't leave people

... guessing wtf the federal government was going to do nearly a year later.

The GQP even used 911 in the next election to to label democrats as sympathetic to the people who attacked us and ***KEPT*** congress in the year they were supposed to lose it seeing they won the presidency.

The J6 attack is still happening in the form of vote denial and nullification, I would like the federal response to indicated some serious shit is going down.

I don't see it

[Haggard Celine]

5. I agree.

They should be giving speeches in Congress every day about the danger we're in. I'm left wondering what the Democratic strategy is for dealing with all of Trump's issues and the coming election. Are they going to feign surprise when all is revealed about the 1/6 plot and then decide to act? I hope they're planning something and not just going about their daily lives asleep at the wheel. I'm scared right now, and I know plenty of others are as well.

[Progressive Jones]

2. I doubt that trump will survive another coup attempt. Wishful thinking. nt

[TheRealNorth]

3. Footage of Jan 6 insurrectionists beating cops...

Should be used for every attack ad come 2022.

[dem4decades]

4. The ads don't matter, the votes won't be counted.

[uponit7771]

6. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 and morph whomever the GQP pol running into Trump ... "they're coming for your

... freedom"

[doc03]

7. Rachel was talking about this tonight. It is really depressing sounds like

in 2024 a Trump win is guaranteed. The talking heads including Rachel have decided we will lose in 2022. Democrats just seem have decided to roll over and let it happen.

[Beartracks]

8. Dear Intelligence/Justice types: you can't prosecute a fascist coup AFTER it happens! n/t

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Thank you. ❤