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We already had a coup attempt in 2020. Do you think the current VP has the integrity of VP Pence?
by Spooky23 1y ago
We already had a coup attempt in 2020.
Do you think the current VP has the integrity of VP Pence?
- UncleOxidant 1y ago*2021
- Y-bar 1y agoI would say you are both correct. The coup began in 2020 with the widespread lies about the election and smaller attempts at using violence to affect the outcome. E.g. where armed men appeared outside voting booths. Or when the Biden-Harris bus was forcefully stopped in Texas: https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2024/a-trump-train-convoy-surrounded-a-biden-harris-bus-was-it-political-violence/ https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2024/a-trump-tr... Then the clear culmination happened on Jan 6, 2021, that is certainly correct as well.
- whatshisface 1y agoIt isn't going to be easy to transfer the cult of personality from Stalin to Beria. :-) If they consolidated the police state by then they could transfer that, not so much the cult of personality.
- atemerev 1y agoThe cult — maybe. But if you are bringing a comparison with the Soviet system — the autocracy itself remained for 40 more years, only to be promptly reinstated through Putin.
- intended 1y agoYou dont have a cult. You have an ecosystem that created an alternative reality. Its structural, not individual. This idea that its a strange aberration of faith - Trump isn't the problem, hes just evidence that the efforts to counter watergate are working. Its the Bannons, Stones and Murdochs of the world that create the media world for someone like Trump to exist.