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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Coups are a carefully planned conspiracy carried out by military officers to seize all the levers of power of a state.
This isn’t a coup. It’s a deranged narcissist unleashing his moronic social media followers to cause mayhem.
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Far be it from me to correct CliffFletcher, but a coup is not limited to the military. Coups are defined as "a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics." There have been many coups that did not include the military. Unsually the only time the military gets involved is if a high ranking member of the military is the one who desires power.
This could easily be argued it was a coup, but I think it fails an important test. The problem is they did not occupy and maintain an office of power. The only thing this did was probably put the finishing touches on the Trump ####show of a presidency. Had they attempted to take political prisoners or control over a body of governance, then this would have been a straight up coup. But like their sociopathic leader, these morons didn't think this through and have a plan or end game. This is a display of lunacy is just a bunch of mouth breathers displaying their faux rage over change in America and them not being from the majority demographic any longer.