Running for Your Life: Soft Coup

There is such a vast different between the silky sound of this phrase – imagine the ear of a lover, the words dew-dropping: Soft, the lightest, faintest of kind and then the harsh “C,” hold on to the heartstring-pulling oooo, note like opera – and its evil. What happens when power is the mailed fist wrapped in what used to be bone and muscle constraints – legislative, judicial, religion, mass media – but is rent to gauze.

That is what is alleged. What will follow is backlash. No need to begin with hard coup, the tanks in the street, the suspension of liberties in the name of law and order, to remove the declared illegitimate leader whoever she may be. Instead the state, aided and abetted by legislative, judicial and most powerful media voice in the land, join the whispered horror that would arise as a direct result of the certain response to the large public uprisings that would follow snuffing of the alleged soft coup attempt, the Holy Week massacre: the firing of special counsel Bob Mueller.

Soft coup. Enter religion: pray it’s not so.

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