The Coup Is Accomplished

(Free to the People: The Decision Now What to Do)

Is it a hundred percent? No. Some things, like missed the boat, the train, the plane, and dead are a hundred percent or not at all. Many things aren’t like that, and a coup is one of them.

Yesterday in the Washington Post (a free, gifted article — I no longer subscribe), Philip Bump reviewed the different institutional avenues to resistance. They are barricaded or, in any timely manner, clogged to impassibility.

The GOP Senate and House are all in for Trump. Even their small majorities are holding. Unlikely rejections of, say, Tulsi Gabbard as Director of Intelligence or Robert Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Resources secretary would demonstrate that a few GOP senators had home-state concerns that Trumped Trump. (After all, the reason these senators have implicated themselves is to retain their offices and power.) Nothing more than that. No break in his support. He’s still gaining power.

Ten years in, and there is less separation between Trump and Trumpism than ever, so the legislative …