Journalist who predicted Trump's 2020 coup explains why his supporters' 'openness to violence' is gr

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Journalist who predicted Trump’s 2020 coup explains why his supporters’ 'openness to violence' is growing

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Barton Gellman, a staff writer for The Atlantic, has an excellent track record when it comes to predicting the ways in which former President Donald Trump and his allies would assault U.S. democracy. Before the United States’ 2020 presidential election, Gellman predicted that Trump would attempt a coup d’état if he lost to now-President Joe Biden —which is exactly what happened. And Gellman is now warning that Trumpistas will be better equipped to pull off a coup in the 2024 election; the journalist discussed that warning during a December 7 appearance on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show.

Maddow and Gellman’s appearance on Maddow’s show followed the December 6 publication of an article headlined “Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun” on The Atlantic’s website. That article is also available as a cover story in the January/February 2022 issue of The Atlantic’s print edition.

Describing Gellman’s reporting as “terrifying,” Maddow asked Gellman to discuss the possibility of Republicans “throwing out thousands, if not millions, of votes in the 2024 election.

https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/trump-coup-2655950826/

[Escurumbele]

1. That will end when trump and his minions are placed behind bars

Garland and the justice system must speed up the process, has to be before 2022 elections.

[ancianita]

2. It's pretty well known by now. Chicago knew it and kicked his mob out before they could

set up Chicago Black people as the perpetrators of violence.

again, from The 1619 Project:

The image of the Confederate flag in the Capitol Rotunda, under the portrait of John C. Calhoun, captured the meaning of both Trump's mob and the movement itself, after his WH occupancy.

Trumpism was never about "populism" or "nationalism" or "restoring greatness." It was always about ... our national community: who belongs and who doesn't; who counts and who shouldn't; who can wield power and who must be subject to it. Ever since our founding, an exclusive, hierarchical, and racist view of political legitimacy has been in our politics. Adherents of this view -- who seek to narrow the scope of participation and wield power through minority rule -- are the direct heirs to a tradition of American reactionary belief

with its peculiar violent history of plantation politics.

Trumpism has race at its core. Trump's march to the WH, propped by his relentless "birther" stance that the first Black president who can claim the countryas their own and has the right to act as a citizens illegitimate.

And this past year, that Biden's victory, propelled by Black votes, is illegitimate, too.

But this question of violence is a centuries-old fight over democratic legitimacy. Trump's appeal is to white Americans who believe that their racial identity and the country's national identity are one and the same.

Today's violence steals an old script to describe your enemy as threatening your life, as someone to shoot with an AR-15 ; or to call your opponents tyrants and thus justify armed, deputized white men killing off all the liberals.

They're still only less than 1%, trying to increase their numbers with all this blown up fear hype and threat.

[Lonestarblue]

3. We are forewarned, but unless we can get Joe Manchin to kill the filibuster for voting rights,

Republicans will be free to do whatever they want in 2022 to throw out votes and overturn elections. One of the ways I suspect they will change results is through voting machines. There’s a reason a few Republican election clerks have shared the programming of machines. It wasn’t to verify votes!

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4. We are like frogs sitting in hot water, as Republicans in many states...

turn up the flame, by enacting voter restrictions and gerrymandering.

And DOJ, Garland is mum on TFG 's culpability.

God help democracy.

[uponit7771]

5. K&R,