Coup in the USA Part II? (aka, the Rolling Coup)

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We believe that in the United States of America today we are in the middle of a “rolling coup.” Our democracy’s avowed commitments to social justice, the empowerment of all citizens, a more equitable economy, the rule of law, and a balance between our three branches of government are under serious threat. After decades of trying to roll back progress on these commitments, deeply conservative ideologues have finally gained effective control of all our government’s powers and are determined to use control to support Donald Trump and to ensure that he will never lose an election.
The current executive is slowly dismantling institutional checks on the president’s power. Their efforts to corrode and then destroy democracy as we know it are more discernible each month and year.

We call this a “rolling coup” and in the following paragraphs describe many of the actions that may each appear legal or at least arguably so but that taken together are well along the path of destroying our democracy. At the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked what had been created. “A republic, if you can keep it,” he answered. We take that admonition seriously today.
 

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Dumbass press.

People were telling you all this was going to happen back during the election but they refused to yell it from the rooftops to everyone. Project 2025 etc.
Yeah... WHO would have thought they'd follow through in their official, published plans??? Pointing this out was called "alarmist."

Republicans: We want to shut down democracy and subjugate minorities!

The left: I think republicans want to end democracy and do all these bad things they said they'd do!

Centrists and Republican voters: Whatever, you're just crying chicken littles!
 

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This just in: a late-breaking story about the condition of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco.....
 
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This just in: a late-breaking story about the condition of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco.....
Has he finally returned to the reins of power?
 
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