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In reply to the discussion: I predict Trump's demise towards the end of 2022 [View all]bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)Their support was the Army rank and file, and the workers - the Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers and Soldiers Deputies. They had maybe 25% support? But they saw opportunity, and they dismantled opposition parties with laws, speeches, press suppression, confusion, and subverting any maneuvers that stood in their way. It was a minority, inside job.
An insurrection may claim to be democratic, to announce it even, but it relies on numbing opposition and going straight for the source of power.
So we're really disagreeing over definition. A power base as you say is required, but that minority support is not political capital in the sense we know it in a democracy - broad support with the public that will tolerate unpopular decisions. It's more a movement of fascist strong arm tactics.
I don't seem him succeeding either, with the caveat of what happens in the Biden economy. Biden could turn out like President Carter - with too much inflation and too little employment - we may be there by August! That gives the GOP, and Trump if he's still upright, an opportunity.
Good OP to promote discussion!