The Coup Accelerates, and America Responds!

The brazen attempt by Convicted Felon Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk to seize authoritarian control of the United States’ government accelerated dramatically in the past several days. (Or is it Elon Musk and his sidekick Donald Trump? Hard to tell sometimes.) It is an effort that can and should be called a coup. Yet it has been met, largely, with yawns.

That is very unfair, of course. Lots of Americans are livid, terrified, and sounding the alarm. But with a few notable exceptions, the leadership of the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, the business community, and the other centers of gravity in public life, including the majority of the American people, are variously unbothered, resigned, or at the very least insufficiently concerned to stand up and announce that we will not allow this unconstitutional seizure of power to stand.

As I’ve written before, I fully understand the exhaustion, the sense of fatalism, the lack of 2017-brand vigor, and the reasons behind that downbeat mood. I feel it too — and the other side brought it on very deliberately. We are also beset with a tsunami of calculated, eyepopping distractions, including — as this goes to press — the insane notion of the US occupying Gaza. But we have to rally, because what we are seeing is undeniably an illegal attempt to undermine, obliterate, or otherwise neutralize…