COUP

[cilla4progress]

Why is this not being called what it is: a COUP!

[madaboutharry]

1. Give it a day.

It's just sinking in.

[Loge23]

2. It is that - eom

[jimlup]

3. It is and more nefarious than we are admitting in public

Seriously, I think the shit goes a lot deeper than we know.

[gademocrat7]

3. It certainly is.

[bdamomma]

5. We know what it is

it is our Senators and Reps who are in denial..My opinion: They Don't want to start a panic.

[chillfactor]

6. too late....

I think the panic among Americans has already started.

[PasadenaTrudy]

7. From Kurt Eichenwald

on twitter last night:

"Stop saying this is a coup. Trump was elected. If the military rises up and takes him down, that's a coup"

[pangaia]

10. In my view that would be a counter coup.

[yallerdawg]

8. A coup? Or another wakeup call?

[MrPurple]

14. A large part of this is gerrymandering & voter suppression

The Dems are not blameless for their situation, but most of the general public doesn't realize the amount that Koch Bros. et al have focused on state governments, purged voters, and then gerrymandered the districts when they got majorities.

Trump is going to need to generate a Democratic wave election in 2020 for us to have a shot at turning this around after the 2020 census redistricting.

[bathroommonkey76]

17. The Koch brothers are proud of that map.

Did you hear that they'll be spending $400 million in the 2018 election.

http://time.com/4652743/donald-trump-koch-brothers-400-million/

[lostnfound]

18. Can't that plague die already?

Seriously they have destroyed the US or at least to within an inch of its life.

[pangaia]

9. I was calling it that a couple months ago.

Others also.

But you are right.... Will CNN, MSNBC,, and whomever the other ones are ( I don't watch TV--almost never).. start calling it what it is??

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Short answer is "NO",

they are part of the problem with their Corporate wants for supporting this Regime.

[Doreen]

11. A coup by definition has violence and there has not been enough.

A coup will happen when armed troops of whatever form come in to take away everyday rights from every common person in every town and city.

[Generic Brad]

15. I give it 30 days

[malaise]

12. More than a few of us have been calling it this from day one

History will absolve us.

[MrPurple]

16. Only immediate hope lies with McCain/Graham/Collins

The Republican House won't stand up to Trump, but McCain is 80 and just got reelected to a new term. Should be an orchestrated effort to get Dems in AZ (a state that's becoming more blue) to call his office daily. Same thing with Collins in Maine.