Jamie Kirchick, writing in the Los Angeles Times, asks readers to imagine a military coup against a future President Donald Trump — and argues why one would be necessary.
Kirchick cites the example of the recent failed coup in Turkey as a source of inspiration:
Americans viewing the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story — the latest, violent yet hardly unusual political development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil — should pause to consider that the prospect of similar instability would not be unfathomable in this country if Donald Trump were to win the presidency.
Kirchick goes on to argue that Trump is a nascent authoritarian, whose illegal military orders — such as torturing terrorists — the military would be required to ignore, and then resist by force.
Curiously, Kirchick cannot fathom Hillary Clinton doing anything illegal with the military (despite her mis-handling of classified national security information, or her evident pride in the Libya war, which Congress never approved):
Needless to say, such dystopian situations are unimaginable under a President Hillary Clinton, who, whatever her faults, would never contemplate ordering a bombing run or — heaven forbid — a nuclear strike on a country just because its leader slighted her small hands at a summit.
Kirchick concludes that unless voters stop Trump from becoming president, a violent coup may be the only solution: “Trump is not only patently unfit to be president, but a danger to America and the world. Voters must stop him before the military has to.”
Read the full article at the Times.
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“Kirchick concludes that unless voters stop Trump from becoming president,…”
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
PRICELESS!!!!!
“Curiously, Kirchick cannot fathom Hillary Clinton doing anything illegal with the military…”
The scumbag commie jewb#tch can always count on the U.N.
WHAT A MAROON!!!
So …. Are they telling us they know he’s going to win ?
Strange
Oh and why wouldn’t they feel this way about our current commander in thief ?
Hipocracy !!!
LA Slime is a Soviet Socialist red rag run by and staffed with red rats.
I agree. Trump isn’t going to do us any favors, but I’d suggest a military coup that also rounds up lying Zionist tools, like the entire staff of the L.A. Times, for example.
James Kirchick is loathsome little neocon Jew. I seem to recall that he penned an especially vile and dishonest hit piece targeting Ron Paul back when the latter was seeking the GOP presidential nomination.
I suspect Kirchick is taking Hillary’s side in this election because in some quarters there is the belief that Trump’s foreign policy would be more isolationist than that of Hillary, notwithstanding Trump’s shameless kissing of Jewish ass at AIPAC and elsewhere. Neocon Jews will take a warmongering Democrat over a (possibly) less-interventionist Republican any day of the week.
Meanwhile, the few real Americans remaining are left with no choice but to vote third party or not at all.