Michael Anton is the author of The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return. He was interviewed on Mark Levin’s “Life, Liberty, and Levin” on Fox. He was a great guest, so I looked up his essay on American Mind, “The Coming Coup?”, which starts off:
Democrats are laying the groundwork
for revolution right in front of our eyes.
As if 2020 were not insane enough
already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking
about staging a coup. You might have missed it, what with the riots, lockdowns
and other daily mayhem we’re forced to endure in this, the most wretched year of
my lifetime. But it’s happening.
It started with the military brass
quietly indicating that the troops should not follow a presidential order. They
were bolstered by many former generals—including President Trump’s own first
Secretary of Defense—who stated
openly what the brass would only hint at. Then, as nationwide riots
really got rolling in early June, the sitting Secretary of Defense himself all
but publicly
told the president not to invoke the Insurrection Act. His implicit
message was: “Mr. President, don’t tell us to do that, because we won’t, and
you know what happens after that.”
All this enthused Joe Biden, who
threw subtlety to the winds. The former United States Senator (for 26 years)
and Vice President (for eight) has not once, not twice, but thrice
confidently asserted that
the military will “escort [Trump] from the White House with great dispatch”
should the president refuse to leave. Another former Vice President, Al Gore,
publicly agreed.
One might dismiss such comments as
the ravings of a dementia patient and a has-been who never got over his own
electoral loss. But before you do, consider also this. Over the summer a story
was deliberately leaked to the press of a meeting at which 100 Democratic
grandees, anti-Trump former Republicans, and other ruling class
apparatchiks got
together (on George Soros’s dime) to “game out” various outcomes of
the 2020 election. One such outcome was a clear Trump win. In that eventuality,
former Bill Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, playing
Biden, refused to
concede, pressured states that Trump won to send Democrats to the formal
Electoral College vote, and trusted that the military would take care of the
rest.
The full essay is here.
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