The historical model of Trump's coup d'État attempt

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I hesitated a bit before posting this. However staying silent is being guilty when something important like this happens, although I cannot be considered like an accomplice, being blocked by the worst Trump supporters we have on myLot, and I am proud of it. Also History is in my areas of expertise, and most of populists are lacking of basic historical knowledge, so this might be useful, including for them. Since about three months the newspapers were full of informations about Trump preparing a coup ; the January 6th 2021 attempt should have surprised nobody, Trump being a man of words. Where he and his advisors took their inspiration ? The Trump's coup historical model had nothing to do with the coups that happened during the French Revolution. To success, a French like coup needs to have a majority in one of the chambers of the parliament, and the Republican majority in the Senate was not a Trumpian majority. An hour before the mob invaded the Capitol, Mitch McConnell gave a pro-democracy speech in the Senate worth to be reproduced in any future American History school book. It had also nothing to do with the Russian coup of October 1917, although the way Trump tried during four years to find and test the failures and weaknesses of the American democracy is similar to the approach of the Russian empire by Lenin. Too long to explain here, but Trump and Lenin are twins, intellectually speaking. The obvious model was the Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923 in Munich, itself inspired by the Mussolini's March on Rome of October 1922. I read on a Yahoo article a journalist calling the January 6th insurrection a "Beer Belly Putsch". Funny, but America should not treat it as lightly than the Republic of Weimar did : Hitler was sentenced to 5 years of jail and freed after only 9 months. We know what followed. The reference to a Nazi coup is not that surprising, "America First" was already the slogan of pro-Nazis Americans in the 1930's and the far rights around the world are putting the Nazi regime at the top of their pyramid. The mob at the Capitol was including many "Proud boys", "QAnon" and other white supremacists, useful idiots that would have been eliminated soon after the coup if they had been violent enough to permit to Trump to declare martial law using the 1807 Insurrection Act and obtain full powers. Good bye US democracy ! In Nazi Germany this has been called the Night of long knives. This level is absolutely necessary to get the support of the moderate average citizen, so Trump disowning the mob at the Capitol is also not surprising. I hope you learned something, this was my goal.