Michael Anton – The American Mind Sept 4, 2020
As if 2020 were not insane enough already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking about staging a coup. You might have missed it, what with the riots, lockdowns and other daily mayhem we’re forced to endure in this, the most wretched year of my lifetime. But it’s happening.
It started with the military brass quietly indicating that the troops should not follow a presidential order. They were bolstered by many former generals—including President Trump’s own first Secretary of Defense—who stated openly what the brass would only hint at. Then, as nationwide riots really got rolling in early June, the sitting Secretary of Defense himself all but publicly told the president not to invoke the Insurrection Act. His implicit message was: “Mr. President, don’t tell us to do that, because we won’t, and you know what happens after that.”
All this enthused Joe Biden, who threw subtlety to the winds. The former United States Senator (for 26 years) and Vice President (for eight) has not once, not twice, but thrice confidently asserted that the military will “escort [Trump] from the White House with great dispatch” should the president refuse to leave. Another former Vice President, Al Gore, publicly agreed.
One might dismiss such comments as the ravings of a dementia patient and a has-been who never got over his own electoral loss. But before you do, consider also this. Over the summer a story was deliberately leaked to the press of a meeting at which 100 Democratic grandees, anti-Trump former Republicans, and other ruling class apparatchiks got together (on George Soros’s dime) to “game out” various outcomes of the 2020 election. One such outcome was a clear Trump win. In that eventuality, former Bill Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, playing Biden, refused to concede, pressured states that Trump won to send Democrats to the formal Electoral College vote, and trusted that the military would take care of the rest.
The leaked report from the exercise darkly concluded that “technocratic solutions, courts, and reliance on elites observing norms are not the answer here,” promising that what would follow the November election would be “a street fight, not a legal battle.”
Two more data points (among several that could be provided). Over the summer, two former Army officers, both prominent in the Democrat-aligned “national security” think tank world, wrote an open letter to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in which they urged him to deploy the 82nd Airborne Division to drag President Trump from the Oval Office at precisely 12:01 PM, January 20, 2021.
About a month later, Hillary Clinton declared publicly that Joe Biden should not concede the election “under any circumstances.” The old English major in me interprets the word “any” to mean “no,” “none,” “nada,” “niente,” “zero,” “zilch” “bupkis”…you get the idea.
This doesn’t sound like the rhetoric of a political party confident it will win an upcoming election.
The Cover-Up in Plain Sight
These items are, to repeat, merely a short but representative list of what Byron York recently labeled “coup porn.” York seems to think this is just harmless fantasizing on the part of the ruling class and its Democratic servants. For some of them, no doubt that’s true. But for all of them? I’m not so sure.
In his famously exhaustive discussion of conspiracies, Machiavelli goes out of his way to emphasize the indispensability of “operational security”—i.e., silence—to success. The first rule of conspiracy is, you do not talk about the conspiracy. The second rule of conspiracy is, you do not talk about the conspiracy.
So why are the Democrats—publicly—talking about the conspiracy?
Because they know that, for it to succeed, it must not look like a conspiracy. They need to plant the idea in the public mind, now, that their unlawful and illegitimate removal of President Trump from office will somehow be his fault.
Never mind the pesky detail that the president would refuse to leave only if he were convinced he legitimately won. Remember: Biden should not concede under any circumstances.
The second part of the plan is either to produce enough harvested ballots—lawfully or not—to tip close states, or else dispute the results in close states and insist, no matter what the tally says, that Biden won them. The worst-case scenario (for the country, but not for the ruling class) would be results in a handful of states that are so ambiguous and hotly disputed that no one can rightly say who won. Of course, that will not stop the Democrats from insisting that they won.
The public preparation for that has also already begun: streams of stories and social media posts “explaining” how, while on election night it might look as if Trump won, close states will tip to Biden as all the mail-in ballots are “counted.”
The third piece is to get the vast and loud Dem-Left propaganda machine ready for war. That leaked report exhorted Democrats to identify “key influencers in the media and among local activists who can affect political perceptions and mobilize political action…[who could] establish pre-commitments to playing a constructive role in event of a contested election.” I.e., in blaring from every rooftop that “Trump lost.”
At this point, it’s safe to assume that unless Trump wins in a blowout that can’t be overcome by cheating and/or denied via the ruling class’s massive propaganda operation, that’s exactly what every Democratic politician and media organ will shout.
Stop the Presses
What then? The Podesta assumption is that the military will side with the Dems. There are reasons to fear they might. The Obama administration spent a great deal of political capital purging the officer corps of anyone not down with the program and promoting only those who are.
Still and all, determining the outcome of an election would be the most open political interference possible from our allegedly apolitical military, and it’s plausible that the brass won’t want to make its quiet support of the ruling class agenda that overt. The aforementioned Chairman has already stated that the military will play “no role” in the outcome of the election. That’s probably not a feint, but one wonders if it will hold given the obvious attempt to influence military thinking by people like Jeffrey Goldberg in his recent Atlantic essay.
Can the Dems rely on the Secret Service to drag Trump out? I have my doubts on this one. I’ve seen the Service up close; it really is (or strongly appears to be) apolitical. It has a job to do: protect the president, whoever that is. Officers take that job very seriously. If they don’t believe Trump lost, I don’t think they can be counted on to oust him. On the other hand, were they to believe he did lose and was refusing to leave—a scenario I find impossible to imagine but the Democrats insist is just around the corner—it’s possible the Service might act.
Barring all that, what’s left? Remember that phrase from the Dem war game: “street fight.” In other words, a repeat of this summer, only much, much bigger. Crank the propaganda to ear-drum shattering decibels and fill the streets of every major city with “protesters.” Shut down the country and allow only one message to be heard: “Trump must go.”
I.e., what’s come to be known as a “color revolution,” the exact same playbook the American deep state runs in other countries whose leadership they don’t like and is currently running in Belarus. Oust a leader—even an elected one—through agitation and call it “democracy.”
The events of the last few months may be interpreted as an attempted color revolution that failed to gain enough steam, or as a trial run for the fall. Is the Trump Administration prepared?
Here’s one thing they could do: play their own “war game” scenario so as to game out possibilities and minimize surprises. They should also be talking to people inside and outside of government whom they absolutely trust to get a clearer sense of who on the inside won’t go along with a coup and who might.
They also need to set up or shore up—now—communication channels that don’t rely on the media or Big Tech. Once the ruling class gives word that the narrative is “Trump lost,” all the president’s social media accounts will be suspended. The T.V. channels, with the likely exception of Fox News, will refuse to cover anything he says. Count on it. He’s going to need a way to talk to the American people and he has to find the means, now.
For the rest of us, the most important thing we can do is raise awareness. If there is a conspiracy to remove President Trump from office even if he wins, they’re telling you about it precisely to get you ready for it, so that when it happens you won’t think it was a conspiracy; you’ll blame the president.
Don’t be fooled.
Michael Anton is a lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a former national security official in the Trump administration. He is the author of The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return.
The criminals have announced their intentions. Usually when this happens in a Democracy, the Rule of Law is applied, and the perpetrators are rounded up and justice is applied. The sad truth is, across the Western Empire justice has become whatever the oligarchy says it is. All institutions have been corrupted. All people in positions of power have been corrupted, even if by saying nothing. We are clearly reaching the end of this Empire which has run its course. It is now down to good people everywhere to do the right thing. The current reality is being driven by the media. Without the media there would be no pandemic. Let there be a rallying call – denounce the corporate media for the liars and criminals they are. Stop watching, reading, and accepting fake news. Think for yourselves and force through the changes you want to see through direct action.
If the US Mil’turry – the self-proclaimed “Bestest Fighting Force the Whirld had Ever See’d!” (cough! cough!) – couldn’t even subdue a bunch of goat-herders in Afghanistan after almost TWENTY YEARS and untold $TRILLIONS of dollars! – then it’s gonna be in for a rude awakening if it goes up against American Patriots – the most heavily-armed Militias the World has ever seen – and better think fcking twice before getting any bright ideas of staging a coup.
think twice before staging a coup…
Gore… “And a has-been who never got over his own electoral loss.” Gore never wanted to win just like John Kerry never wanted to run for president, never mind win it.
If Trump wins, and there is a coup against Trump, there will be a civil war in bankrupt Amerika & what transpires from that civil war will make the present civil disobedience look like a 2yr old kiddies tanTrump.
All these so say open discussions about coups and the military escorting Trump from the White House, has me thinking that this is the same bullxxxx that we suffered before Trump won in 2016.
Trump might have to delay the election if the corporates decide on a Winter of Covid. Talking about the big C, I see fake news stories that C is weakening and other stories that the hardest-hit age group is now the 20-30yr olds… by Winter, could it be the kiddies? Meanwhile, Boris is threatening to break HIS Brexit treaty… it doesn’t matter, I clearly stated all through the Brexit years that, in the EU, out of the EU, hard Brexit or soft Brexit, the UK is completely screwed & it is, very clear to me, and I’ve made this point many times before, the coup plotters want a completely new system where your basic rights, your employment rights and the very social contract that any (so say) civilised country should expect and have delivered by the regime, simply won’t exist.
You only need to hang on the scripts spewed out by BBC pressitutes, that the future is dystopian & what you remembered in 2019 is a distant memory. You will need papers to travel, your will have your ration book & your vaccination book… even if they’ve chipped you, you will be forced to carry documents, because you can’t arrest, fine and abuse people if its a purely chip-based system. This might take a while to appear obvious. I’ve seen (not watched) YouTube videos stating this is the age of the viruses. I’ve already said this. We’re are going to have waves of Covid, real or faked & we are going to have many other bioweapon viruses. Over a protracted period of time, the population will be gutted of the old, weak, & poor, and anyone else who has defective code in their genome… this defective code decided by some geeks in Porton Down & Fort Derick. When the old, weak and poor are ejected from the NWO gun, more sheeple bullets fill the chamber. I rang my local hospital the other day. St Thomas’ Hospital, probably the best NHS hospital in the country. I rang them about an annual out-patients appointment… ring to listen to their dystopian message. I eventually spoke to a nice chap about my appointment &thoughts on why this big hospital is still closed. Because I’ve had no issues over that last two years, they thought I could go two years without a checkup… then he said I could have an appointment, this after he told me they were seeing patients who need treatment. So I said, now you’ve made me feel guilty, that I might take a space. As I said, I told him what I thought and he said (bravely) that he had his opinions as well… I said, don’t say them now on this line (calls recorded). My near by naighbour who has stage 4 cancer, he had no treatment over lockdown and has only been seen once since LD ended. The regime is breaking up the healthcare systems, all part of Brexit master plan.
Well done you Brexit voters, YOU did your bit for the NWO.
A piece worth thinking about for those of us in the Jewnited States. It’s only going to get uglier the rest of 2020. Spot-on comment by Activisor above.
Man am I glad I relocated a couple years ago out of a coastal city infested with feral street apes to a little piece of the country, one of the two “American redoubt” regions, that still adheres to traditional values and the locals see rabid liberalism as a mental illness. Plus, there is a very low percentage of blacks, thus a very low percentage of violent crime…and the feral street apes who are here learn their place real quick if they get out of line. That relocation was absolutely calculated as even a blind man could see what was coming.
82nd Airborne Division, oh dear. My mother attended with my stepfather a top brass do at the Tower of London and a few Americans with their wives were in attendance a few years ago. My stepfather was in Gibralter on 9/11. He was a staff seargant in the British Airborne engineers and an explosives expert and he received a long service medal from the Queen a year or two after. The thing is he had been retired from the military for a good twenty years. Oh he’s been at many a function just before something horrible has happened in the world and I could name the barracks too. I have always wondered how our troops were on standby before 9/11 and not one, not a single one top brass military person questioned the official line, nope they were straight into Afghanistan to reinstate the heroin trade. I’m beginning to wonder who the American 82nd Airborne works for, maybe they should too.
Obama Administration cleaned out the Military of anyone that stood in the way of the Agenda which was to destroy America from within. The General’s are all Fake have never actually been in the trenches like warfare. Only General whom has was Herbet Rayomd Mc master.
The rest I wouldn’t piss on if they were on Fire.
Steve Piecnenik breaks down it all.
https://youtu.be/JpLTH0YrnY8
https://youtu.be/xeup9D0JGcU
https://youtu.be/il7FRYHj_TA.
And i also note alot of Rabid Jew haters on this forum.
Steve is a jew Look past that and look and lsiten to the message.
Hello from denmark, I fear the author comes very close to reality in his possible scenarios, the top kikes like the tech co’s, cnn, msnbc, NPR, hollywood, the FED, the major banks, all the billionaires and hidden influencers have organized to take trump down like they took down another white european patriot some 70 years ago who fought to free his country from the banking usury scheme. ((They)) control the UN, the EU, china, the world bank, wto etc., Trump was a glitch in their plans that were not supposed to happen. They will not allow him 4 more years, They will use the black population and the communist youth to instigate a civil war and the military has been infiltrated like FBI and NSA. I would prepare for the worst. America will never be the same after November the 3, but if US goes into commie dictatorship the west is also lost. I will have to stack up on joints starting November this will be nerve wracking. Good luck guys.
As the old saing goes ??
BE CAREFUL FOR WHAT YOU WISH ?
To Slobadan
It’s not the Generals that matter, it’s the Lieutenants all the way to Colonels that matter & they are the one, that you want on your side !
Bullshit. Not a hope. Trump will win with a massive landslide!