Coup Parte Deux

Democracies are process-determinative, not result-determinative. Like jury verdicts election verdicts are legitimized by vote. Democracies are a closed system, that is, they have no democratic means to defeat a non-democratic threat, no democratic means to counter a threat of coup d'etat. Donald Trump was an illegitimate president for foreign influence on the 2016 election. Nonetheless, he was legitimized as president by election results which were not challenged by proponents of democracy. They didn't know how; they had no experience in turning back a threat from undemocracy. They would "beat him at the ballot box" in 2020, forfeiting four years. It is the nature of would-be dictators to accept democracy's legitimacy when they win and to reject it when they lose. Thus, although democracy did beat Trump at the ballot box in 2020 the would-be dictator did not accept that result of democratic process. He fought it in embarrassing and futile legal attempts and then by undemocratic means in the attempted coup of Jan. 6. Instincts are not susceptible to change and a dictator's actions always revert to his "instincts".

So Trump has never let up in his rejection of democratic process, in his reversion to his dictator's instincts and has now stated that if the authorities in Georgia and the Manhattan District Attorneys Office charge him with any crime he will again call on his dictatorship-worshiping supporters to take to the streets in Atlanta, New York City, and again on the Capitol to thwart legal process.