Coup d’Etat

The other day Lt. General Michael Flynn went on Newsmax and spoke nonsense. According to the former general, who recently got a pardon from the president, the president should enact martial law and re-run elections where Donald Trump lost. Now, let’s be clear, this talk of a coup, of martial law, has been the biggest thing this side of crazy town in far-right fringe websites. It’s also circulated on more mainstream ones, even if this is a matter of degree. The president even considering it, according to the New York Times, is not normal.

He also spoke of naming Sidney Powell special counsel to investigate the election and find out where the (imaginary) fraud was, Until now many of the talking heads on the TV Machines were thinking that this was just a grift from Trump. Some of us knew it was more than a way to raise money from a base desperate to overturn the election. That the president continues to encourage is clear. But for a moment of clarity, we saw one of the talking heads breach the necessary subject. Donald Trump is not just encouraging a base to raise money. He believes this.

Welcome to the club people. Trump cannot see himself as a loser. Essentially having to concede to Joe Biden means he is a loser. His psyche cannot handle that. His father, as his niece Mary has reminded us repeatedly, said to Donald that losers are the worst people in the world. So now some of the commentariat are waking up to the reality we were wanted about by Michael Cohen, his former fixer.