It has occurred to me, as I'm sure it has to others, that Trump's Saturday military parade is a perfect setting for a military coup. As commander-in-chief he will be overseeing thousands of armed troops, hundreds of tanks and armor, artillery, helicopters and attack aircraft as well as the U.S Army elite parachute team, the Golden Knights. How simple it would be and what would stop him from commanding the parading forces to continue up Constitution Avenue to easily and quickly overwhelm the undermanned Capitol Police, seize the Capitol, dissolve Congress and the courts (what he failed to do on January 6th), establish martial law, imprison critics and opponents and establish himself as supreme dictator for life in the company of his idols, Putin, Kim and Orban among others. And as for me, I'll be car caravanning Saturday at Tucson's No Kings rally, hoping we still have a democracy at the end of the day.
Former Marine captain, Vietnam vet
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Jeff aronson
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