#COUP

Naunihal Singh

naunihalpublic

THREAD: Is it a coup yet?Today a journalist asked me, is what Trump is doing a coup? If not, how can we best describe it? What words should we use?I

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

I have lost track of the times in this attempted coup where I've speculated on what they'll do next or simply described what they're doing now and heard "But they

Seth Ackerman

SethAckerman

a sizable contingent of people are claiming that a far-right coup is underway — not in some figurative sense, not as a hypothetical, but as something happening right now, before

Craig Calhoun

craigjcalhoun

Just trying to take stock (1): There has been an attempted coup in the US. It involved planning, not just 'spontaneous' mob action. But it wasn't planned very well or

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dmills3710

America Just Experienced a Coup, But It Wasn't By Trump“This is nothing more than a plot to illegally usurp the President’s constitutional powers. In other words, it is exactly what

BadEmpanada

MadEmpanada

A coup is when random people show up to a building and are allowed to enter and fuck around for a few hours by the very armed agents of the

Maria Dahvana Headley

MARIADAHVANA

Soft coup is the phrase you're looking for. This doesn't look like what you maybe think of, when you think of a coup, but it is an attempt at a

Kristen Harkness

HarknessKristen

I’m seeing the word “coup” thrown about again. So let’s go through the coding exercise... 1/n Is there force involved? At this point, we would probably all concur that there

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Just a reminder that the violence and destruction during the BLM protests that everyone is equivocating to the coup attempt was largely caused by the same Right Wing interlopers who

Ryan Mac 🙃

RMac18

As protestors stormed the Capitol, Facebook employees took to their internal workplace message board to express their fears and ask that Trump be removed from the platform. In response, management

Max Fisher

Max_Fisher

My take on the "is it a coup" debate: Respectfully, coup studies are a little trapped in the field's Cold War-era origins. Its definitions no longer fit the world we

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. This is right. Trump's clownish authoritarianism makes it hard to calibrate a response: to take Trump's schemes as likely to succeed is to fall into hysteria. To dismiss them

Don Purser 🇺🇸🇺🇸

DGPurser

Patrick Byrne reveals that the original plan in the 2016 election was to ensure Hillary was elected so that she could be controlled.Trump won and it destroyed the plan, which

Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

Morning! More reading for people who need to be reminded that panicking is not only not helpful, it actively helps Trump in his coup efforts. This article analyzing Turkey's failed

Johann Margulies

JohannMargulies

L’insécurité explose de façon très inquiétante, scènes de guerre, violences gratuites partout, prise d’otage, meurtres, on reste étrangement passif mais ça va du coup on ne fait pas le jeu

Vincent Bevins

Vinncent

So that piece was largely about US historical amnesia, and the false line between the "civilized" West and the rest, but I want to talk about this part here, since

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