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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrue or False? - The attempted coup ended when Joe Biden became President on January 20, 2021.
Yes, that was the end of it. The attempted coup failed. Democrats regained control of our government.
No, the attempted coup continued. It is more of a threat now than the day Joe Biden was sworn into office.
Which of those comments do you believe to be the most true?
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)we need 2018-20 levels of turnout or higher.
bottomofthehill
(8,261 posts)It is still being promoted. People are running for election to further the goal of overthrowing the will of the people. Trump and his minions are still lying about his historic election loss. It is still ongoing
bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)We think it a coup or insurrection, but it's a 45 year revolution to grab power by any means and install fascists in the skeletal framework of the US government to serve money, power, greed, and corporations. Install the formerly regulated as the regulators and call them patriots. Revolutions don't fail, they just morph.
still ongoing. All the unfair redistricting in red states is one example.
Irish_Dem
(45,616 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Democrats who think trump lost in 2016 and Gore in 2000, not to mention hostility from those who lost primaries.
So not really surprised a bunch of GOPer rubes continue their claims of "We waz robbed" when their guy lost.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,768 posts)CrispyQ
(36,221 posts)I would like to ask democratic leadership your questions. A few days after January 6, 2021, DiFi stated that she didn't think democracy was in any danger. WTF?
634-5789
(4,175 posts)bluestarone
(16,720 posts)It was for real, BUT ended up a practice run! Look out ahead. They will be coming FULL FORCE! If They ever succeed it's over!
NewHendoLib
(59,940 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)or Good and Evil, if you insist.
Thinking one or the other side "won" is simply going back into your hole.
Best_man23
(4,887 posts)It continues on, and it will continue on until Republicants are dealt such a decisive defeat that it finally penetrates their neutronium thick skulls that continuing to run on Fraud, Fear, and Fascism is a losing strategy.
TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts)BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)to totalitarianism than to recover from it. Im not saying there are easy solutions but it is kind of a one way street.
The best chance to stop it is now.
A lot of Russians get that they are not free.
DeeNice
(574 posts)Still ongoing, still a threat