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Historians Fear Trump’s Failed Coup Is a ‘Dress Rehearsal’
MSN ^ | 12/27/2020 | Ben Jacobs

Posted on 12/29/2020 7:52:13 AM PST by dirtboy

The United States has survived the 2020 election and its seemingly never-ending and increasingly bizarre aftermath. Efforts by Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the courts met abject failure at almost every turn even as a number of Republican elected officials and Republican voters embraced them.

The most apocalyptic scenarios that some scholars worried about before the election did not come to pass. But nothing that happened after November 3 can be considered normal — not the threats to election officials, not the concerted legal effort to invalidate millions of votes, and certainly not Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Some prominent academic figures who study how countries fall into dictatorships are deeply concerned about what would come next.

Daniel Zilblatt, a political science professor at Harvard and the co-author of How Democracies Die, told Intelligencer, “I think it’s pretty clear that there was a somewhat serious effort to steal this election. It’s not going to succeed. In that sense, the acute normative crisis has passed. It doesn’t mean our checks and balances have worked.” He pointed to what he described as “a chronic slow burning problem” within the American electorate, the “radicalization” within the Republican Party.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beltandroad; china; gaslight; krystalnacht; pogroms; purges
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So a response to an actual coup becomes a coup in its own right. Somewhere, a former Pravda editor is blushing.
1 posted on 12/29/2020 7:52:13 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

That’s what the left believes right?

They (most of them anyway) think the election was won fair and square and Trump is trying to steal it.

It’s insane.


2 posted on 12/29/2020 7:54:46 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: dirtboy

And lots of Americans will buy it.


3 posted on 12/29/2020 7:55:00 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: dirtboy

Always accuse your opponent of doing what you’re actually doing.

Anyone paying attention knows this election was rigged. So, less than half, but tens of millions of people are going to be a problem. Expect crackdowns and endless smears against “right-wing extremists”

I mean, even more than usual.


4 posted on 12/29/2020 7:55:23 AM PST by shaven_llama
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To: dirtboy

Trump’s failed Coup ? LOL


5 posted on 12/29/2020 7:55:35 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: dirtboy
Yes, the dominant media has openly become our official Leftist state media now.

But then, it has been difficult to know if the politicians on the left were controlling the media, or if the Media were controlling the politicians for over 50 years.

These last four years, President Trump ripped the masks off the Media.

6 posted on 12/29/2020 7:56:19 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: dirtboy

The best defense is a good offense...or something like that.
At least give the leftys credit for knowing that tactic.


7 posted on 12/29/2020 7:56:54 AM PST by nascarnation
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To: Jonny7797

The media blackout is almost 100 percent. I knew the fix was in when Fox called AZ for Biden after 30 minutes. And social media has largely been cut off as well. People I know who would normally at least have some relevant information are completely in the dark and see nothing wrong with what happened in PA.


8 posted on 12/29/2020 7:57:00 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Jonny7797

No it is the foundation for a civil war which must happen. We must kill off the far left and this only proves what I have been saying for 10 years.


9 posted on 12/29/2020 7:57:12 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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Yep the dumb and dumber believe this! So sad......... I know the Man Above will take care of them in due time!


10 posted on 12/29/2020 7:57:14 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: dirtboy

More gaslighting from the gaslight media.


11 posted on 12/29/2020 7:57:49 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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Finally after 4 years MSN runs a “failed coup” article and this is it? 😂😂😂😂😂


12 posted on 12/29/2020 7:59:00 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: LoveMyFreedom

The man above has bigger issues to worry about. It’s up to us to make things right.


13 posted on 12/29/2020 7:59:17 AM PST by RBW in PA
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To: coloradan

We must go full Balkans on the media!! Not one left!


14 posted on 12/29/2020 7:59:36 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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Gallup poll: Trump most admired man 2020, yet Biden gets more votes than any candidate in history? Yeah OK.........

https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/trump-tops-list-of-most-admired-men-of-2020-poll/


15 posted on 12/29/2020 7:59:54 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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>>Efforts by Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the courts

And how much evidence did any of the courts actually look at?

“this is ridiculous”
“you don’t have standing”
etc

FMSM


16 posted on 12/29/2020 7:59:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: dirtboy

They’re worried....and they should be.


17 posted on 12/29/2020 8:00:15 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: shaven_llama

Doesn’t anyone out there remember the purges and pogroms, boxcars and ‘showers’,Tienanmen Square, midnight raids and krystalnacht (sp?)? Jeez!!!


18 posted on 12/29/2020 8:00:41 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Jonny7797
its insane that an “academic” could write a book about How democracies fail and be that stupid!!!
19 posted on 12/29/2020 8:00:47 AM PST by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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Efforts by Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the courts met abject failure at almost every turn

Do all the businesses in DC still have the plywood on their windows that they put up in case Trump won and Democrats went on a rampage of looting and destruction? Asking for a friend.

20 posted on 12/29/2020 8:00:59 AM PST by Drew68
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