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In reply to the discussion: Poll: Was yesterday a coup attempt? [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)39. Not even close to a coup d etat
A coup d etat has several common key ingredients
1) central organizing group with a plan to take over institutional power
2) multi location attacks to take over control of media
3) infiltration of military command structure enabling key units (usually capital tank units) to take physical control of the capital.
Could go on but this wasn't close to being a coup attempt. It wasn't treason.
It was an unruly seditious mob. Trying to undermine orderly government is sedition, not treason (which requires helping an enemy during war) or a coup d etat which is an organized attempt to take over control of government.
It was sedition, an attempt to disrupt the normal legal order, a serious crime.
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the head of state was not threatened so I think it's not a coup, legally speaking nt
msongs
Jan 2021
#1
What you or I think is the proper definition of "coup" doesn't mean jack squat
StarfishSaver
Jan 2021
#26
I honestly don't know. Trump is obsessed with himself, so he may have been showboating.
42bambi
Jan 2021
#6
I voted yes but really need a lot more proof than what we have seen so far that Trump ordered it. nt
Quixote1818
Jan 2021
#7
It's only a coup if its from the coup d'etat region of France, otherwise its just sparkling white
NightWatcher
Jan 2021
#10