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It’s not a coup in any literal sense of the word, not even in the autocratic sense. The reason it’s being used is a combination of the US having never experien
by scarab92 2y ago
It’s not a coup in any literal sense of the word, not even in the autocratic sense.
The reason it’s being used is a combination of the US having never experienced a real coup, and thus it’s citizens not really knowing what the word means, plus one side of politics being sore losers after having lost an election and using whatever insult they can think of in order to deflect rather than self reflect on why they lost.
- amitrip 2y ago[dead]
- Ozark 2y agoit's an auto coup where the legally elected leader takes more control than they were given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup
- Propelloni 2y agoWe have better words for that than "coup", esp. because is is not clear at all if Trump will uphold the constitution, law and traditions of the USA by just abdicating at the end of his 2nd and final term. How about "Gleichschaltung", or "synchronization" for the English speaking folks, instead?
- groestl 2y agoAlso, "Staatsstreich". It seems we [German speaking countries] have experience with that kind of coup.