I & I Editorial BoardFor the past three years, the left has claimed Donald Trump lied about the 2020 election and then attempted an insurrection on Jan. 6 to overturn the results. But now that Trump is leading in polls, the left is talking ominously about a “coup.” Pay attention, because if Trump wins in 2024, this will be how the left tries to stop him from getting anything done.
At a protest in Washington, D.C., a week ago – organized by a group that calls itself “Stop the Coup 2025” – Markus Batchelor, the national political director of People for the American Way, told the crowd that “Jan. 6 was just a dress rehearsal.”
So is this group predicting Trump will try to take over in 2025 even if Biden wins reelection?
Not exactly. He went on to say that coups “don’t need weapons to succeed.” He said that “coups can be committed by pen and paper,” “coups can be committed at the ballot,” and “coups can be committed by seemingly democratic processes.”
Come again?
The definition of “coup d’etat” in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary is “the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.”
What is Batchelor saying? That if Trump wins in November it will be the equivalent of a violent overthrow of government?
Basically, yes.
The Stop the Coup website says that: “The GOP plans to install a Day One Dictator and dismantle our democracy.”
So, all this “coup” talk is about what Trump would do if he were elected. That’s why the Stop the Coup rally was held outside the headquarters of the conservative Heritage Foundation, which last spring published a 900-page “Mandate for Leadership” – a book updated every four years – that contains a truckload of policy proposals to rein in Big Government.
Stop the Coup describes it as “the Republicans’ blueprint attack on labor, gender, immigration, racial equality, climate, media, education, health care, democracy, and more.”
At the rally, one of the speakers went so far as to say that leftists should “bird dog” Heritage employees. “We need to go find out where they live, where they go to church, who they hang around with, and bird dog they asses.”
The rally was a bust. It attracted only a handful of attendees and, aside from Breitbart and this editorial, doesn’t appear to have generated any press attention. But don’t let that fool you.
According to Breitbart:
The ‘Stop the Coup 2025’ coalition is only one part of a vast and well-funded network of radical far-left organizations … The titular head of the leftist network is a group named ‘Indivisible’ [which] is backed by George Soros, Reid Hoffman … as well as other donors such as San Francisco mortgage billionaire Herbert Sandler, New York real estate heiress Patricia Bauman, and oil heiress Leah Hunt-Hendrix.
If we didn’t know any better, we’d say this coalition now runs the Democratic Party, given that Democrats routinely call Trump a fascist, a wannabe dictator, a “threat to democracy.” They always overlook the fact that Trump would first have to win a free and fair election.
Biden’s reelection campaign is nothing more than an attempt to scare voters about the horrors to unfold if Trump did legitimately win back the White House.
CNN recently reported that Biden’s reelection campaign “will largely be about carefully ratcheting up the intensity against Donald Trump,” with the only question being “when to go ‘full Hitler’ … rather than couching their attacks by saying Trump ‘parroted’ him.”
One way to look at all this “coup” talk is that the left really is worried that Trump will beat Biden in November. And by the looks of recent polls, that’s increasingly likely. So the rhetoric is about stopping him from getting anything done, much like the Russian hoax was meant to do in Trump’s first term.
But this is even more worrisome than a phony scandal, because calling whatever Trump tries to do as president a “coup” paves the way for extreme, violent action should Trump win.
After all, if the left wants to stop a “coup” from succeeding – even one supposedly committed at the ballot box – they are almost certainly going to use the dictionary definition of “coup”: “the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.”
That will make Jan. 6 look like a garden party.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Why Is The Left Suddenly Talking About A ‘Coup’ At The Ballot Box? Because that is what the Left is planning.
It is what they already did in 2020
The left continues its coup to take over the American Republic. They accuse the right of what they are guilty of. We no longer believe anything coming from this media.
As always, you can tell what dems intend by what they accuse others of.
I’d love to donate, but I’m quickly going broke due to Bidenomics.
If we are to save our Republic, we must unite. We must expose the lies, and be prepared for the left’s attack on the truth. My comments on most media outlets are shadow banned, denied or censored. Why? Because the algorithms deny the truth that I espouse.
As I’ve observed before, thank Heavens for the Second Amendment!
This is an interesting article and it actually generates thought and perhaps the ability to compare and contrast with other electoral processes.
The Russian Federation is having an election this year. It is well known that the Russian Federation generated legislation allowing the current head of state to run again. We know that at least one of his competitors (Navalny) was accused and convicted of crimes and is now serving time in communicado somewhere in the Russian corrections system. Essentially, “Jurors and not Voters” gave the current head of state his current term.
Three American presidential candidates have complained about unfair elections over the last 25 years. As a result the radical left in the United States has forces through legislation in almost every state that allows for extended voting windows, vote harvesting, unsigned ballots, unsecured ballot drop boxes, and some even allow legal and illegal aliens to vote. This certainly doesn’t enjender confidence in the electoral process.
I submit, that there really isn’t much difference between the use of a jury to allow the Russian head of state to retain office and the use of a jury to allow the current American head of state and his political party to retain political power.
The media and political argument will be that Trump is guilty. This same political and media argument would apply in Russia. The Russians would also argue that, of course, Navalny is guilty.
“Guilty dog barks first”. Now the Marxist-socialist are in fear of being the victim instead of the victimizer as they were in 2020.
In any case Marxist-socialist aka the Democrat Party is the enemy of the United States, its constitution, its Bill of Rights, its fare elections, and the individual liberties of its citizens.
As always, these leftists are engaged in pure projection. When the left makes statements about what they are planning, via accusation, everybody should believe them.
The “democratic processes” is a “threat to democracy”, but billionaire oligarchs rigging the system behind the scenes are protecting democracy.
The left had their coup d’etat in 2020 when they stole
the election in 6 crucial cities. Pedo Joe is illegitimate
as is everything he does. Sould DJT win in 2024,
the coup of 2020 will have failed and our republic restored.
if not, the Deep State fascists will have won, and there is no peaceful
way back from that.
Patriots are itching. They should do this.
Why is Trump secretly confiding his publicly undisclosed plans to become a dictator on Day One to every unhinged crank and Democrat troll in the country?
Does anyone have insights into why oil heiresses and other billionaires are funding this clearly radical group? It cannot just be radical chic and I do not believe that any of them feel “guilt” (because if they did, they could just give their money away). Where does this loathing of the working and middle classes originate?
they are terrified that PDT will get re-elected and shut down all their anti-American BS, like turning the US Military into a flouncing SoiBoi disgrace.
Sky Screaming 101 was a failure, but never let it be said that the delusional left is anything but single minded. They are a barnacle below America’s water line, and have been for two and a quarter centuries. Enough.
It is what the left is itching for. They are quite confident they can get away with anything they want to steal elections given what they have gotten away with the last few decades(state wide first, then national).
They will let their “brown shirts” loose and when conservatives respond to protect themselves they will declare marshall law and outlaw all guns.
There will be no Jan 6 hi-jinks against the brown shirts.
It is ashame the “useful idiots” cannt see what is coming for this country because it will eventually come for them too.
It is tragic that the media is ignoring this “play with words” that People for the American Way (an oxymoron if I heard one) is engaging in.
The “coup” is suppose to take place if Pres. Trump is elected at the ballot box. An insurrection is, as the editors of I&I point out, a violent overthrow of the government by a minority.
So, according to the misnamed People for the American Way (and which organization should be more accurately re-named, “Communists and Fascists for the American Way), democracy is threatened at the ballot box-and a democratic election is undemocratic.
I guess the officials of People for the American Way could point this out in Russia or China, Iran or N.Korea-but if they do ensconce themselves in those Communistic and autocratic governments in order to point out the futility and the undemocratic elections of those nations-they would be caught and then murdered by the Government of those nations.
It is only in the United States that the rabble of People for the American Way is taken seriously. Unfortunately, it’s conclusions are taken seriously by all of America’s left-wing revolutionaries (which includes the Main Stream Media).
That we have to take it seriously too-in order to avert the Left’s coup of a democratic election-is also what is SO tragic.
By a “coup” they mean they are losing the power to control the outcome. Let’s hope that’s true. We could all do with an “honest” election for a change.
Look at how many coups have occured in various African countries over the past 60 years and not one has been without guns. The same goes for coups across the world during this same time frame. Jan 6 does not in any way resemble any of these.