This is a much more serious threat than you believe.
First of all, the military is not a democracy.
Second, the chain of command (if it remains intact) is almost sacrosanct.
I had an interesting discussion a few years ago with a serving O-5, as conservative as they come, about whether or not Obama had the ability to order the military to suppress anti-Obama forces, and his surprising answer was "almost certainly yes".
A military coup against Trump will not begin by having Michael Moore and Ashley Judd address every corporal in the country via a video link explaining the why and wherefore.
It will begin (if it does) at zero dark thirty with men hustled out of their bunks and told a false story by a trusted leader (who got it from HIS trusted leader) about President Trump and the nation being in danger, requiring them to deploy to site A and carry out mission B.
All communications will be down, the only source of information for junior officers and troops will be their chain of command.
By the time anybody figures out what is really happening, Trump and Pence will be dead, Ryan and Hatch will be arrested (or Ryan will be addressing the nation from the Oval Office), and that will be that.
Imagine what sort of officers have received third and fourth stars from Obama. This has been going on for eight years.
I don't think a military coup is probable - but it IS possible - and if it goes down, the soldiers, sailors, and marines won't be voting on it.
Sorry, but it’s not possible IMHO. Everyone in the military has been trained in the UCMJ and know that you are not required to obey an unlawful order and they are all familiar with the Posse Comitatus act. As soon as they would be ordered to assault an installation in the U.S. military members from privates on up would start to question it. They are not robots.
The question though is if all the military is aware of this threat, and it is a threat, would they recognize the illegal order?
They would never outwit Trump though, the guy is too smart and would be 100 chess moves ahead of them before they even made their first step. He’s doing that already and I KNOW he has got a plan to take out Soros within the coming year. Like he said in his message on Twitter about “Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters...” He is warning them that he knows who they are and what they are doing with the likes of Soros and that he has them in his sights. He’s not going to stand for this anarchist terror sh*t, rioting, burning, attacking. Would not surprise me if in the coming year he has all the leaders of these groups arrested for terror activities. That’s when the heads of people like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will really explode LOL!
I’m assuming that Trump is a smart leader. I would imagine that Mattis and the other trusted generals who Trump has talked to, have come up with lists of O-6 through O-12’s whom they trust. Each of those will, in turn be interviewed and asked about every officer they know. That information will be put to good use.
Yes, Obama has put a lot of his people in place. But those people have not likely been smart enough to hide what they are.