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NBC Opinion: Trump's election lies are an attempted coup. Biden and other Democrats should say so.
NBC News / Comcast ^ | November 23, 2020 | By Dean Obeidallah

Posted on 11/23/2020 5:13:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

President Donald Trump is not trying to simply undermine President-elect Joe Biden's presidency, nor is he primarily trying to position himself for a 2024 presidential run, as many have suggested. No, Trump's No. 1 goal is to overturn the results of the 2020 election. It's time for Biden and other Democratic leaders to describe his actions in the most forceful and universally understandable language possible. And that means, in this case, calling them part of an attempted coup to illegally overthrow the Biden presidency.

In the past few days, several experts have noted that Trump's actions do not technically constitute a "coup" in the academic sense. According to Michael Albertus, an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago, for example, a coup "typically connotes a violent takeover of government." Yet these same experts warn that Trump's actions are a threat to our democracy.

Regardless of how you define the word, now is not the time for academic debates. Trump's wildly effective communications strategy proves that sometimes simpler is better. Biden's response, in contrast, has been far too careful and far too polite.

Instead of taking the supposed high road, Biden and other Democratic officials must flood the media - including Fox News - with warnings about Trump's lies. Attempts to remain in power against the will of the people are not business as usual in America - they are more akin to something seen in banana republics.

Biden, as president-elect, must be spending the weeks until Inauguration Day vocally defending our democratic elections against authoritarian attacks from within. By standing up to Trump's attempted coup, Biden will be proving to those millions of Americans who voted freely and fairly for him that they made the right choice.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; election2020; journalism; media
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1 posted on 11/23/2020 5:13:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bullcrap.


2 posted on 11/23/2020 5:14:30 AM PST by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches. Leftism is a moral pestilence.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 posted on 11/23/2020 5:18:37 AM PST by Junk Silver (Old FR maxim: "You can't steal a landslide." Joe Biden: "Hold my beer...")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Projection!!


4 posted on 11/23/2020 5:18:45 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It is articles like this that make me think the left really does have something to be afraid of.

If Trump's challenge is as ludicrous and baseless as they say -- why all the angst and Twitter bans, etc.?

They don't seem to have a lot of confidence in their "win."
5 posted on 11/23/2020 5:19:38 AM PST by hemogoblin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC is Comcast is an American enemy more dangerous than Russia or Iran

NBC affiliates must be eliminated They are not free speech voices, they are criminal propaganda purveyors. All the NBC affiliate employees are American enemies including mindless weather reporters. X


6 posted on 11/23/2020 5:20:21 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, o. h, my, what a wonderful day)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They always project what they’re doing. I fully exect and hope I am wromg some Trump people to be arrested before democrat/Dominion people.


7 posted on 11/23/2020 5:20:59 AM PST by Phillyred
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To: hemogoblin
They don't seem to have a lot of confidence in their "win."

Of course they are worried. The election fraud was so massive and so blatant, it cannot be concealed -- even by a thoroughly corrupt media.

8 posted on 11/23/2020 5:23:22 AM PST by Blennos ( )
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To: DarthVader

Yep,cracks are starting to show in the oligarch’s propaganda mill.


9 posted on 11/23/2020 5:25:45 AM PST by SanchoP ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." )
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10 posted on 11/23/2020 5:26:01 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Left (which includes all of enemedia like NBC) always say exactly the opposite of the TRUTH. Trump’s election WAS/IS an attempted coup ... by Biden/DemonRats.


11 posted on 11/23/2020 5:28:55 AM PST by Qiviut (Fox "News": Unfair, Unbalanced & Unhinged. #Foxit)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Soy boy, et al, must be geared up for something today.


12 posted on 11/23/2020 5:29:54 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Stand Back Quitter Caucus. Go Sit Down. NO SURRENDER! )
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To: hemogoblin

They are afraid, IMHO, of what SCOTUS will do. Expect a deafening chorus of “ ACB must recuse herself because Trump appointed her.”


13 posted on 11/23/2020 5:31:24 AM PST by philippa
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There will be 100,000s of forged signatures on voter rolls and absentee envelopes or there will not be and that is the only thing that will matter.

I HOPE the delay in showing this is just to heighten drama. That would make realty show sense and Texas Hold ‘Em poker sense, get everyone all in before showing the cards.


14 posted on 11/23/2020 5:32:30 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it’s a done deal, why hasn’t Kamala resigned her senate seat?


15 posted on 11/23/2020 5:35:05 AM PST by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We at NBC have told nothing but LIES for 4 years regarding Trump Russia Collusion,

You can trust us now???

NBC= ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!!


16 posted on 11/23/2020 5:35:08 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

#BidenConcedeNow


17 posted on 11/23/2020 5:36:13 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

aah yes... use what republicans say and simply say the same thing... just like little kids ...


18 posted on 11/23/2020 5:38:23 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: nevergore

is it possible the FakeNewsMSM could get more Orwellian?

probably.


19 posted on 11/23/2020 5:39:21 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did he ever write something like this about the Russian and Ukraine hoaxes?


20 posted on 11/23/2020 5:39:22 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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