Typically, coup attempts do not wrap up in time for dinner.
But over the next few days, with the anniversary of the 2021 January 6 Capitol riot having become a progressive political holiday worthy of obsessive memorialization, the nation will be deluged with tales of attempted government overthrow, Trumpian lunacy, and the FBI desperately trying to explain why it has yet to catch a person who—on video—placed two pipe bombs in DC that day but has somehow gloriously managed to track down and prosecute 1,000 trespassers.
Despite what the endless and tedious and inaccurate anniversary media coverage—all delivered with a joyously smirking “kid in a candy store/evil Republicans” tenor—will be claiming, the January 6 riot had all (maybe really only some) of the hallmarks of, well, a riot, and none of the indicators of an actual “insurrection,” let alone an attempted coup d’état.
For an actual and successful coup, one need look no further than the inglorious defenestration of Joe Biden last summer.
A coup is an extremely tricky proposition, as Burt Lancaster’s character in the 1964 film “Seven Days in May,” discovered much to his chagrin. The film (and the book) note the level of detailed planning necessary, the prior co-option of various levers of power that needs to occur, the cruciality for speed of implementation, and—just as importantly—the requirement of a post-coup strategy. […]
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