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dumbcat

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55. Not if you're not

Mon Dec 12, 2016, 08:47 PM

Dec 2016

So you will agree it wasn't done by force, and it's debatable as to whether it was done illegally (since there was an election), then all that's left in your definition is " a sudden and decisive action in politics". By your way of thinking any sudden or decisive action in politics is a literal coup.

Most real dictionary definitions of a coup include violence or use of force.

But you may have the last word (literally)! Bye.

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