Even a Squashed Coup Can Set the Course for Authoritarianism. Just Ask Russia

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If American leaders mishandle the aftermath of last week's failed insurrection, history warns that the country could be in for even bigger turmoil down the road

incited a violent fascist-type mob to storm the Capitol, violating law, order, decency, and protocol in an attempt to overturn his indisputable loss in the November election. In Moscow for the holidays, I regretted being away from my hometown, New York, ready to hit the streets in defense of the world’s oldest democracy. The second was in 1991, when hard-line Communists detained the Soviet presidentin a failed coup attempt to turn the Soviet Union away from democratic perestroika .

America’s circumstances—its 200-year-plus history of democracy, constitutional law, and functional institutions—are different, but its divide may not be, and if American leaders mishandle the aftermath like Russia did, then the country could be in for even bigger turmoil down the road.that “the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not represent who we are” but “a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness.” This is a form of American delusion—of those who claim that Trumpism is “not us.

In 1991, Soviet coup leaders were charged with treason, only to be later lauded as patriots encompassing the attitudes of those who felt marginalized and wronged by sweeping societal changes. America has witnessed a similar process, but unlike paternalistic Russia where guilt depends on the whim of the authorities, it has laws. Trump’s legal effort to overturn the election has been. The president’s supporters loved his message of “law and order.

 

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they have to do the right thing so the world can see this cannot be okay and this cannot happen again there’s always consequences to be paid

YOU DAMN RIGHT, IN MORE WAYS THAN PEOPLE REALIZE! THEY BETTER DO WHAT THE LAW SAYS THEY SHOULD DO AND PUT THESE PEOPLE AWAY, IN PRISON AND QUICKLY, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!!! HOW DO YOU GET BAIL FOR INSURRECTION AND MURDER!?

The beer hall putsch happened and hitler only got a couple of years in prison where he just wrote his manifesto. These people should be treated like the terrorists they are and sent to Guantanamo bay.

Shut it down

Don't for get it is Republican Gun laws that allow these people to amass a collection of guns that they could easily turn on our Military and Police. They're not protecting their homes. They are threating our Democracy with them.

Bigger turmoil both down the long road of our country's future, and the short road of the next five days. It ain't over, because Trump has yet to give a genuine concession speech and recognize Joe Biden as our duly elected next president. InaugurationDay2021 DC

Scary stuff.

Yep. Expect it, and prepare. I guess gun manufacturers are going to be really happy.

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