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The stark difference between 2020 and 2026
The Coup Is Not a Bug. It Is the Plan.Donald Trump’s latest election rhetoric is not random bluster. The source piece describes a rehearsed script: declare victory was “rigged,” deploy ICE and the National Guard, seize ballot boxes, criminalize protest, and wrap the whole operation in emergency language. The point is not persuasion. It is pretext. This is what authoritarian politics looks like when it stops pretending to be embarrassed.Power Is the StoryThe central fact is institutional power. Trump is not imagining violence from the margins; he is planning to use the machinery of the state…
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