https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-24-trump-coup-has-failed/
EXCERPT… Trump’s second term was always whether he would bully the country into an effective monarchy, or fall prey to the laws of political gravity.
I’m taking a pundit risk by saying that we now have that answer, after one month in office: Trump’s cooked.
His failure has followed the usual direction of political overreach. Brave dissidents from the political opposition, corporate America, or his own coalition didn’t suddenly rise to the challenge. It started from the bottom up, as the governed gradually but definitively withdrew their consent, giving space for those we somehow call “leaders” to distance themselves.
They’re still on the purge and plant sycophants stage. They only fired the chairman of joint chiefs and nco this week. They only installed a podcaster as #2 of the fbi this week. They only got their director of national intelligence and fbi director last week. It hasn’t even really started yet.
Originally commented by u/qcAKDa7G52cmEdHHX9vg on 2025-02-25 09:29:37 AM(mepfata)