Yes, This Really is a Coup Attempt
And it took Trump only 10 days to announce his first concentration camp
It’s become clear now that President Donald Trump, his Co-President and Chief Execution Officer, Elon Musk, and a large number of co-conspirators, are in the process of staging a coup. They are using Presidential Executive Orders and a broad array of other often lawless, unconstitutional actions to remake our government and our society.
These “executive actions” are being executed under the pretense that Trump has been given a popular mandate to override and to remake our laws and our Constitution to achieve his goal to “Make America Great Again.”
I cannot underscore this point enough: Trump and his co-conspirators believe that Trump’s re-election provided the popular mandate to override and to remake our laws and our Constitution to, “Make America Great Again.”
It’s the “Dictator on Day 1” mandate to seize monocratic, autocratic power for which the Project 2025 plan is the explicitly drafted and published manifesto and playbook.
Here’s the latest headline from The Guardian:
This is an extraordinarily dangerous time for our country and, by extension, for our world —for all of us. The chaos being created, the guardrails being crushed, the vengeance being exacted, and the radical changes being forced upon us are a narcissistic thug’s dream. Yes, to paraphrase a legendary American patriot, “The Brutish are Coming!!”
Let’s be clear, Trump is not asserting his assumed entitlement to autocratic power out loud, as in saying, “I’m the supreme ruler.” He’s asserting his entitlement, his mandate by way of a ‘shock and awe’ campaign of unprecedented actions that are creating a dizzying and destructive array of ‘facts on the ground.’
This is a coup attempt. There’s just no denying it.
And one has to hope that our political and civic leaders do everything they can to catalyze the resistance necessary to thwart this coup from succeeding before it’s too late.
That’s it. That’s the post for the moment.
More to come.