Historian Timothy Snyder thinks Trump trying to pull coup, destroy democracy

[adigal]

almost inevitable.

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/01/historian-timothy-snyder-its-pretty-much-inevitable-that-trump-will-try-to-stage-a-coup-and-overthrow-democracy/

Yes, he is selling a book, but the article is worth a quick read. Talks about ways to protest, while we still safely can. Watching lawyers getting arrested in Turkey last week and the last few months made me realize that we are only a few steps away from that.

[winstars]

1. Some of us thought this the day the scumbag came down that fucking escalator. No shit Sherlock!

[The Wielding Truth]

2. Yea. It really seems that way. Every move he makes is destabilizing.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

3. The coup has already happened. What he's trying to do is

consolidate his power so that he can't be removed.

[niyad]

5. sadly, you are quite correct. the coup happened the night of 8/9 november 2016.

[niyad]

4. nss