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This is not a coup, this is just politics being enacted. USAmericans are not used to things happening, I guess, but Trump and Musk are stomping over all protocol because they can, and unless their opposition is willing to stop them they will do whatever. Because that bloodied parchment has no material force and no matter what your class interests are, "checks and balances" are merely a convention. This is what politics actually looks like.
This keyboard warrior seems to be horrified at the mere notion that the Executive can decide what the state does, or that they're firing "security officials who follow protocols" (they say that 6 times). I truly hope this is a fake account from an angry laid off USAID worker trying to make a fuss, and not an actual human who believes this.
If "every American need to act now", he should lead by example rather than cheer from the sidelines. Go get 'em patriot. Pathetic.
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George "Town Destroyer" Washington.
What you described still falls comfortably within the definition of a coup, which is always "politics happening"
It's not though. A coup detat involves a party coming into power through unconstitutional means. They might be breaking the law now but it doesn't make it a coup because Trump and his posse attained power through a democratic election.
the office of US president isn't democratically elected
They didn't attain the power to do what they are doing. When a part of the state takes powers belonging to other parts, that's still a coup. While American Presidentialism is the closest thing to a monarchy there is without having a king, what's happening is already wildly unconstitutional and a frontal assault at democratic structures.