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The leaders of the American military love the constitution, and one relatively small thing on it is gun rights.

• michaelt 2y ago
  Sure - the gun rights stuff is just me saying it makes sense why the military could skew Republican. The linked survey saying veterans are 61% pro-Trump vs 37% pro-Harris sounds plausible. Loving the constitution is all very well, but Republican voters and senators seem to manage to square that with supporting Trump. Makes no sense to me, but apparently to 50% of the American population it does. So IMHO the military could plausibly have backed a Trump coup, if the coup had been better planned. And I was glad when they didn't!
  • gadders 2y ago
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    • michaelt 2y ago
      There's that love of the constitution squared with supporting Trump that I was mentioning.
    • rob74 2y ago
      Trump intended to stay in power although he lost the election. As long as we agree on that, I don't see how you could not call it a coup. It only failed because there still were some people with a backbone around, among them Mike Pence. There are fewer of them this time.
      • gadders 2y ago
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