The recent coup was a very "American" type of coup that didn't involve violence, but only the threat of violence.
Once a coup happens, the means of communication are always seized to prevent the opposition from having a voice, but in America, Big Tech already had done that prior to the Biden coup. In the run up to the election, they convinced many people that it would take weeks to know the real winner, which gave the left time to ballot box stuff until Biden came out on top.
The next thing dictators do is disarm their opposition. However, guns are the only thing conservatives have won on the culture war in the past 50 years, because they really CARE about their guns. The left won't touch it but to nibble on the margins.
So applying historical parallels is difficult. However, dictators always consolidate their power. What the Dems have tried to do is consolidate their power with HR1, to institutionalize their election fraud regiment. However, it looks like that won't happen due to (amazingly enough) a few principled Democrat Girondists who were happy to get rid of Trump but don't want the Jacobins to pull out the guillotines.
Further, since it's hard to rig all 435 House races, and 33 Senate races, they have to deal with mid-term elections in 2022 being somewhat normal in a post covid era where they can't stuff the ballot box for weeks like in 2020. So they won't crash the economy like some think, because if it crashes people naturally blame the party in charge, at this moment it's the Democrats.
2008 was a black swan event. Big banks and elites were getting filthy rich on the housing boom. They were caught flat-footed as was everyone else. They just made sure the bailouts protected them and the politicians that enabled them, and that nobody saw a prison cell for anything.
If an engineered crash happens, it will be to force a transition to a non-cash economy. I don't think that's likely to happen, because political power is all about a grift...taxing the masses to reward your friends and punish your enemies.
Democrats are more than willing to jigger things or jawbone such as to cause a recession to obtain power, but not do so when they are in power.
The recent coup was a very "American" type of coup that didn't involve violence, but only the threat of violence.
Once a coup happens, the means of communication are always seized to prevent the opposition from having a voice, but in America, Big Tech already had done that prior to the Biden coup. In the run up to the election, they convinced many people that it would take weeks to know the real winner, which gave the left time to ballot box stuff until Biden came out on top.
The next thing dictators do is disarm their opposition. However, guns are the only thing conservatives have won on the culture war in the past 50 years, because they really CARE about their guns. The left won't touch it but to nibble on the margins.
So applying historical parallels is difficult. However, dictators always consolidate their power. What the Dems have tried to do is consolidate their power with HR1, to institutionalize their election fraud regiment. However, it looks like that won't happen due to (amazingly enough) a few principled Democrat Girondists who were happy to get rid of Trump but don't want the Jacobins to pull out the guillotines.
Further, since it's hard to rig all 435 House races, and 33 Senate races, they have to deal with mid-term elections in 2022 being somewhat normal in a post covid era where they can't stuff the ballot box for weeks like in 2020. So they won't crash the economy like some think, because if it crashes people naturally blame the party in charge, at this moment it's the Democrats.
2008 was a black swan event. Big banks and elites were getting filthy rich on the housing boom. They were caught flat-footed as was everyone else. They just made sure the bailouts protected them and the politicians that enabled them, and that nobody saw a prison cell for anything.
If an engineered crash happens, it will be to force a transition to a non-cash economy. I don't think that's likely to happen, because political power is all about a grift...taxing the masses to reward your friends and punish your enemies.
Democrats are more than willing to jigger things or jawbone such as to cause a recession to obtain power, but not do so when they are in power.