Summary
Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric and actions suggest he may be preparing not just for an election, but for a “slow-motion coup.”
Despite being seen as an electoral liability for Republicans, Trump has primed his followers with narratives of stolen elections and positioned 2024 as an existential battle. This approach parallels far-right populist movements worldwide, where loyalty is signaled through belief in conspiracy theories.
With ongoing lawsuits, targeted claims of “non-citizen” voting, and support from some judicial figures, Trump’s strategy hints at an attempt to disrupt and delegitimize the electoral process if he loses.
It’s pretty obvious there’s a shitload of Republican leadership fully invested in overthrowing democracy. They can’t win any other way.
Question is… Do we let them? If we want meaningful reform we need the House/Senate, we need to vote like it’s the last meaningful vote to ever be held in this once great nation, and hopefully prove ourselves wrong in doing so.
They don’t care what gets destroyed, as long as they win
Littlefinger embodied as a political party.
What if? That’s absolutely what they’re trying and they’ve said as much.
I wouldn’t even say it’s slo-mi. They’re literally explaining that it has always been, if it’s not extra clear from his own recent comments.
Been saying it since he said he didn’t need more votes: votes are his plan b.
It’s not even a coup. He’s very close to winning the electoral college as it is because Americans are fucking idiots. It’s just going to be a procedural matter not a coup per se.
Stand back, stand by, stand trial.
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Kamala should be meeting with the military to prepare a response. This is not a time to be polite.
Maybe that should be Biden. Kamala doing it would be a bad look.
The Guardian is just figuring this out now?
A cover? Yeah like the kings new clothes maybe.
It obviously is
The people need to put a stop to this!
And how?
You’ll hear responses like general strikes or large scale protests. I’m cynical, but I have a hard time believing anything can be done aside from voting and hoping it works.
The US is too spread out, patches of humanity too separated to make a general strike work. (what are people in rural Montana going to think when their one grocery store clerk doesn’t show up for work?)
Almost half of Americans actually want a coup so that the “right” people will be punished in a righteous fury - they don’t give a shit about reality or democracy (or even the hope of democracy).
I’m so fed up and broken down by it all.
By voting, staying informed, participating in protests, pushing stv ranked choice, boycotting unethical businesses.
It’s already cover for a slow motion grift.
These facist have so many sleepers, that even if he doesn’t win, he’ll still win.
Is not so much that he will win (he’s obviously being used, and we’ll have no actual power himself); it’s more that the rest is are gonna lose, I’m afraid.
