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Agreed. This isn't a "coup", it's just the consequences of politics. This is what it looks like when an administration actually uses its powers. Liberals have forgotten what that's like because they are pathologically incapable of doing anything proactively, all they want is stagnation and status quo while "business as usual" goes on, because that has always benefited them, that's always been a cushy way for politicians to get rich while doing nothing but getting fattened by lobbyists and then having a go at the good old revolving door.

So i'm sorry, but as the saying goes "you snooze, you lose". Maybe next time they are in charge they should enact some purges of their own. Maybe they should have, as so many people were telling them to do, expanded and packed the supreme court while they still could. If the situation was reversed the Republicans would have had no compunctions doing so.

The founders of the empire understood also that the whole shtick about "democratic institutions" was only supposed to be something you feed the masses to fool them, you weren't supposed to drink your own kool-aid. Politics and governing is not about "norms" or "protocols", it's simply about power and the exercise thereof. Fascists understand this. Liberals don't, which is why they will always lose.