It Is A Coup February 3, 2025 Timothy Snyder makes the case: The people who now dominate the executive branch of the government are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation. . . . Knowing what they themselves will do and when, they will have bet against the stock market in advance of Trump’s deliberately destructive tariffs, and will be ready to tell everyone to buy the crypto they already own. . . . The best people in American federal law enforcement, national security, and national intelligence are being fired. . . . The attempt by the oligarchs to destroy our government is illegal, unconstitutional, and more than a little mad. The people in charge, though, are very intelligent politically, and have a plan. I describe it not because it must succeed but because it must be described so that we can make it fail. This will require clarity, and speed, and coalitions. Here are a few ideas. . . . If like me you are horrified by his pardoning those who bludgeoned cops (not just commuting their sentences, in all but 14 cases, but pardoning them) . . . while purging the world’s premier law enforcement agency, installing a morally compromised drunk to head the Defense Department, and handing the national checkbook to Elon Musk . . . I urge you to read those ideas. Also, to read Heather Cox Richardson: Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal government. Now we are watching them do it. . . . Steve Bannon explained years ago how they were going to “flood the zone” and overwhelm the established order. And now it’s happening. This is no time to disengage. Impeachment can’t come soon enough. Sign on, in case you agree.