It’s common that a radical populist faction fails in its first attempt to seize power, only to later succeed and steer a nation to its doom. See Hugo Chavez’s

It’s common that a radical populist faction fails in its first attempt to seize power, only to later succeed and steer a nation to its doom. See Hugo Chavez’s defeated 1992 coup attempt: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Venezuelan_coup_d%27état_attempts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Venezuelan_coup_d%27éta...