Coup? Constitutional Crisis?

Multiple Rumors and books have come out since President Donald Trump was sworn in. We knew already from all these random reports that things were crazy in the White House. Real world backstabbing and palace politics are making House of Cards look mild in comparison. In fact, this is making that fictional universe look like a friendly place. So here is the question we must seriously consider. Have we had a coup?

Coups abroad have a very specific path, with the usual image of the army in the streets. The army is never a friendly outfit. Resistance to the new order is destroyed in short order. Democracy goes away in the course of an afternoon. A colonel usually comes on the national television and radio and speaks of how much they love the nation. And to whit how much they are protecting the nation from dark forces that otherwise seek to destroy the nation.

Read the New York Times opinion piece, written by a member of the Administration. Ignore the fact that we do not have army troops manning checkpoints. This may very well be a different type of coup However, this part of the essay sounds awful familiar to any student of any military coup.

This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.

Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to…