At a protest in Washington, D.C., a week ago - organized by a group that calls itself "Stop the Coup 2025" - Markus Batchelor, the national political director of People for the American Way, told the crowd that "Jan. 6 was just a dress rehearsal." So is this group predicting Trump will try to take over in 2025 even if Biden wins reelection? Not exactly.
He went on to say that coups "Don't need weapons to succeed." He said that "Coups can be committed by pen and paper," "Coups can be committed at the ballot," and "Coups can be committed by seemingly democratic processes." Come again? The definition of "Coup d'etat" in Merriam-Webster's dictionary is "The violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group." What is Batchelor saying? That if Trump wins in November it will be the equivalent of a violent overthrow of government? Basically, yes.
The Stop the Coup website says that: "The GOP plans to install a Day One Dictator and dismantle our democracy." So, all this "Coup" talk is about what Trump would do if he were elected.
Stop the Coup describes it as "The Republicans' blueprint attack on labor, gender, immigration, racial equality, climate, media, education, health care, democracy, and more." At the rally, one of the speakers went so far as to say that leftists should "Bird dog" Heritage employees.
According to Breitbart: The 'Stop the Coup 2025' coalition is only one part of a vast and well-funded network of radical far-left organizations The titular head of the leftist network is a group named 'Indivisible' [which] is backed by George Soros, Reid Hoffman as well as other donors such as San Francisco mortgage billionaire Herbert Sandler, New York real estate heiress Patricia Bauman, and oil heiress Leah Hunt-Hendrix.
CNN recently reported that Biden's reelection campaign "Will largely be about carefully ratcheting up the intensity against Donald Trump," with the only question being "When to go 'full Hitler' rather than couching their attacks by saying Trump 'parroted' him." One way to look at all this "Coup" talk is that the left really is worried that Trump will beat Biden in November.
If the left wants to stop a "Coup" from succeeding - even one supposedly committed at the ballot box - they are almost certainly going to use the dictionary definition of "Coup": "The violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group." That will make Jan. 6 look like a garden party.
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