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clive delmonte's avatar

I had never understood Mr Trump's immediate problems on assuming office. Now it is becoming ever more clear. It amounts to a counter coup. Mr Trump's critics complain about the events on the Capitol on Jan 6, 2000 as an attempted coup against the US Constitution. They should know. They had been running an attempted coup against Mr Trump for four years!

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EFR's avatar

This is a very reasonable analysis.

As you mentioned the anti-trump crowd is cross benched; there also seems to be a correlation between the 'never Trumpers" and establishment entrenchment; the establishment, i.e, career politicians, are horribly afraid of him because of his anti-establishment positions; he's a populist, and they don't like populists; it's a threat to their career; it's a threat to the status quo. They are lashing out viciously; not to mention, every time they abuse the legal system to go after him they not only threaten the substructure of the legal system itself, and the three hundred years of good faith (longer in the common law UK), but they also strengthen his populist cause (and RFK jr's populism) because the average Joe is not stupid; they see it for what it is.

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