Ralph Nader: “Know This, Trump’s Attempted Coup on Jan. 6 Was Just Practice”
Nader’s article begins:
What are the institutions—public and civic—that could roll back this fast-approaching U.S.-style fascism with the snarling visage of serial criminal and constitutional violator, Donald J. Trump?
“Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun…” is the title of an article in the Atlantic, just out, by Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of many groundbreaking exposés. He describes the various maneuvers that Trump-driven Republican operatives and state legislators are developing to overturn elections whose voters elected Democrats from states with Republican governors and state legislatures. Georgia fit that profile in 2020—electing two Democratic senators in a state with a Republican legislature and governor.
Imagine a world in which the January 6th insurrection had been swept under the rug, and all the other attempts at election tampering (e.g., Georgia) had been ignored. In that case, there is little doubt that the Republicans would have made even more grossly illegal attempts to subvert our democracy and re-install Trump against the wishes of the American people.
Yet, at this point, all that dystopia seems extremely unlikely to play out. Once it’s clear to all Americans that the 45th president committed treason, most of Trump’s supporters will finally realize that they’ve been conned, and this horror will come to a grinding halt.
