Bring On The Generals Roughly 60 Percent of Polled Democrats Would Support a Military Coup
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
According to the Center, roughly six in 10 (59%) Democrats polled said they would feel “very positive” or “somewhat positive” if the US military removed Trump and seized control of the American government.
The vast majority, of course, would be happy if Trump were impeached and removed from office (87%) or ousted by his cabinet via the 25th Amendment (84%).
The survey also shows the same overwhelming support for socialism in the new Democratic Party. What is surprising is the support for public ownership of industries. That includes almost half (46%) supporting public ownership and operation of grocery stores. Almost 40 percent support public ownership and operation of restaurants. (39%).
I have previously said that I do not recognize the current Democratic Party as someone raised in a politically active and liberal Democratic family. I first became estranged from the party over the radical shift from a pro-free speech party to one that supported censorship and speech curtailment.
Despite many who claim that the Democratic Socialists represent a small fraction of the party, these polls show a consistent and growing majority in support of socialism.
The addition of support for a military coup shows the manifestation of a rage addiction in America. Democratic leaders are now calling for trashing core constitutional institutions or values. When some of us criticized moves to pack the Supreme Court, leaders like Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom accused us of engaging in mere “ nostalgia .”
It is the same “nostalgia” that leaves many of us shocked at the support for a military coup. On our 250th anniversary, we face yet again Benjamin Franklin’s warning that this is a Republic if we can keep it.
Article is LOCKED by author/seeder
Who is online
86 visitors
"defending democracy" was always just a talking point and a means to an end. It's always, always, by any means necessary.
Just because you can cram shit together in a paragraph does not mean that the implications of the words that you (or Turley) say are true.
Respondents were asked how they would feel if they woke up tomorrow morning and saw that headline. The choices were: very positive, somewhat positive, neither positive nor negative, somewhat negative, and very negative.
So for the headline that they woke up to:
Let us just take a minute here and reiterate that this is what they are waking up to. They did not necessarily support, condone or otherwise participate in the events that caused these headlines to be written. But it did happen. There is no going back. The military has already taken over. Nowhere in the pole does it ask if they support the actions, it merely asks how they would feel. But Turley (and you, Sean) turn the obvious relief that this POS President has finally departed the stage not to return into active support for the actions that the headline is about.
Turley takes an answer about how people would feel on hearing the news and calls it support for a military coup. You take that another step further and claim that defending democracy was always a pretext and that Democrats believe in any means necessary.
You cannot get from one to the other without evidence, and you have no evidence.
Jonathan Turley is a disgrace to the practice of law and to the country.
Has he ever suggested that Donald Trump be held to account? He may mildly criticize this or that about Trump every now and then, but I have never seen or heard of him saying Trump needs to be held responsible for a damn thing.
Turleys premise for posting that article is that Democrats want Trump out ASAP. Duh? Thats is the only defensible position - Trump should be out yesterday. By any means necessary? No , he should not be assassinated. I dont think a military coup would solve anything , and the military is right wing at its core anyway.
Impeachment? 25th amendment ? Something incapacitating him? When can we start?
Thats is the only defensible position - Trump should be out yesterday
some of us think the constitution is, in fact, a defensible position. Per the poll, most democrats believe otherwise.
Donald Trump is by far the worst thing that has happened to this country, politically, since the Civil War. Of course people want him out immediately. He is mentally ill.
Destroying the country and ending the republic is insane, which is what a military coup would do.. How can you possibly put anything trump has done in the same universe as that?
Trump is already destroying the country on his own.
Look at the consequences of Trump as PotUS. Don't blame the people for wanting to remove the worst, most corrupt administration in our history. Try blaming Trump. Focus on the actual problem rather than endlessly engaging in blind partisanship.
Focus on the actual problem
60 percent of democrats would destroy the republic and throw the constitution out the window and you think trump is the actual problem????? lol.
endlessly engaging in blind partisanship.
As you rationalize your fellow partisans supporting the overthrow of the government ? Physician, heal thyself.
Yes. Because you know (or should know) that the poll answers are easy to give and that all those people would not actually seek to destroy the Republic. Look at how the poll shows the respondents prefer Trump leave office in a more natural, normal fashion.
In contrast, the damage by Trump is real and continues.
Trump IS the problem.
How can you ignore this and keep defending this psychopath?
This is just continued trolling by you. Unlike you, I am not tied to a party. I do not defend a party. I vote for the candidates, not the party. You, in contrast, post almost entirely partisan comments. 'All problems are by the Ds, not by the Rs.' Pathetic.
To be fair, that choice is being suggested as to “safeguard the Constitution.” Most people are not lawyers or well versed in the Constitution. I would say, as well, that most politicians are not well versed in the Constitution.
Most certainly, our president is not. What he does not know about our founding documents is positively staggering. He thinks the Declaration of Independence was a “declaration of unity and love and respect.” I guarantee you that he would have supported the military removing Joe Biden from office.
So, the choice is offered as being constitutional. It’s deceptive. Respondents are being led to believe that there is a legal pathway for the military to remove the president. There isn’t, but they clearly do not know that.
Donald Trump is a reprehensible excuse for a human being. Why should these results surprise anyone?
Trump was not elected because of he is a likeable person. Trump was elected on promises that he has failed to keep. What Trump is doing during his last term in office has nothing to do with MAGA.
BTW, here is a link to the full poll (opens a PDF):
AI Generated description: The Center for Strategic Politics is a progressive 501(c)(4) non-profit organization and political research group that conducts public opinion polling and data analysis. According to the organization, it operates as part of the progressive community, providing data, insights, and polling for political campaigns and critical discourse. They conduct surveys utilizing platforms like Pollfish and apply iterative proportional fitting to weight data based on targeted demographic samples. [ Key Wiki ]