The Coming Coup?

Article author: 
Michael Anton
Article publisher: 
American Mind
Article date: 
16 September 2020
Article category: 
National News
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This article presents a rather frightening scenario: elites and the Democrat party are conditioning the American people to prepare for forceful removal of President Trump from office. That is, to blame President Trump for not leaving office even though the winner of the election is unresolved.

 

As if 2020 were not insane enough already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking about staging a coup....

All this enthused Joe Biden, who threw subtlety to the winds. The former United States Senator (for 26 years) and Vice President (for eight) has not once, not twice, but thrice confidently asserted that the military will “escort [Trump] from the White House with great dispatch” should the president refuse to leave. Another former Vice President, Al Gore, publicly agreed.
 
One might dismiss such comments as the ravings of a dementia patient and a has-been who never got over his own electoral loss. But before you do, consider also this. Over the summer a story was deliberately leaked to the press of a meeting at which 100 Democratic grandees, anti-Trump former Republicans, and other ruling class apparatchiks got together (on George Soros’s dime) to “game out” various outcomes of the 2020 election....
 
About a month later, Hillary Clinton declared publicly that Joe Biden should not concede the election “under any circumstances.” ...
 
In his famously exhaustive discussion of conspiracies, Machiavelli goes out of his way to emphasize the indispensability of “operational security”—i.e., silence—to success. The first rule of conspiracy is, you do not talk about the conspiracy. The second rule of conspiracy is, you do not talk about the conspiracy.
 
So why are the Democrats—publicly—talking about the conspiracy?
 
Because they know that, for it to succeed, it must not look like a conspiracy. They need to plant the idea in the public mind, now, that their unlawful and illegitimate removal of President Trump from office will somehow be his fault....
 
They [the Trump Administration] also need to set up or shore up—now—communication channels that don’t rely on the media or Big Tech. Once the ruling class gives word that the narrative is “Trump lost,” all the president’s social media accounts will be suspended. The T.V. channels, with the likely exception of Fox News, will refuse to cover anything he says. Count on it. He’s going to need a way to talk to the American people and he has to find the means, now.
 
For the rest of us, the most important thing we can do is raise awareness....