A soft coup? For scholars of fascism and Latin American military dictatorship such as myself, it is hard not to think that Tump and GOP are testing the waters..this situation should not normalized, democracy needs to be defended. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-republicans-election-challenges/2020/11/09/49e2c238-22c4-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html?tid=ss_tw
Top Republicans back Trump’s efforts to contest election results

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other GOP officials offered support for the president’s attempts to undermine faith in the outcome, despite the lack of any evidence of widespread fraud.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-republicans-election-challenges/2020/11/09/49e2c238-22c4-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html?tid=ss_tw
perhaps a trial balloon but this is how anti-democratic developments start. Trump and his cronies need to understand how serious and potentially criminal this is...should we start talking of this as sedition? treason?
If in my own region of Latin America, a loser president fired the defense minister and lies about his electoral defeat, the talk would be very different. But the US looks more like the Latin American past rather than its present, with the exception, of course, Bolsonaro, Bukele
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