coup

Before the election, I thought that if Trump won or managed a successful coup, I would just withdraw.

Transactional politics imply cutting deals with coup leaders and warlords whose crimes are their credentials.

Perhaps most depressingly, what all these “Trump trades” show is that there is nothing too extreme for America’s plutocrats to abide—not an attempted coup, not open bigotry and baseless fearmongering, not convictions of sexual abuse, not even the country’s perceptions around the world.

There are also frequent accusations of coup plotting, which further fuels paranoia.

I think many of us just assumed that the nation would never elect Trump again because he had not only been repudiated once, he had subsequently attempted a coup, incited an insurrection and had been found guilty of fraud and defamation and is currently under criminal indictment at both the federal and state levels.