1640s, from French coup d'état, literally "stroke of the state" (see coup). Technically any sudden, decisive political act but popularly restricted to the overthrow of a government. coup d'état in Culture Expand. Senator Mitch McConnell made it very clear to his Republican Party, that although Barack Hussein Obama won his first term as president with overwhelming majorities, and even as the citizens of the United States trusted this newest president to set standards and pave the way forward; EVEN with all of the Constitutional fine print in tact, the Republican Party would never let this duly and democratically elected man fill any of his duties and obligations. On January 20, 2009 Mitch McConnell with his financial billionaires fired the first warning shot providing all of us in plane sight that a political coup had begun. This coup d’elate was not sudden but as dangerous as the Southern states seceding from the union and as frightening as Joseph McCarthy’s “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party, Nixon’s Watergate and President Cheney’s lie of mushroom clouds and the sudden implosion of the Twin Towers.
We can talk, talk, talk we can protest, protest, protest but as we the common man and woman spend out time trying to discover the facts regarding Trump’s tax returns/his business association with Putin, his mental health stability..the Republican is slowly but surely dismantling the foundations of democracy and rotting away the civil liberties and freedoms of the people of this nation. We can compare the dictatorial nonsense Trump espouses coming from self identified White Supremacists to Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, we can lament that there is no transparency denying us from finding the truth, and we can Re-Tweet with the most sincere of sarcastic words the idiocy that is Trump…but all the while, each and every day, the Republicans are overthrowing this government.
The question we should be asking, the purpose we should be seeking is NOW that the Republicans are successfully completing their coup d’état, what is left to stop them, and who can we turn to to lead the way. If in fact you are still a Republican and have not discovered for yourself the lies, the cover up, the fear the GOP of their constituents, the madness by which cabinet positions have been awarded, the hate for People of Color, for Women, for the LGBT community, for Immigrants for Jews, if you have not discovered the OVERT HATE for the pieces of the American dream that had made this nation great…then you are soulless, selfish, and just as sinister as Mitch McConnell and his coup d’état!
