Sudden coups talk goes mainstream, nobody blinks

The way talk of coups and militarization has ramped up in the US lately, it honestly feels like I’m watching a hostile takeover of Washington, DC happening in real time. I’m not exaggerating - now we’ve got leaders from right-wing think tanks openly calling this the “second American Revolution” and saying it’ll stay bloodless only if the left just stands aside and lets Republicans completely overhaul the government after the next presidential election. It’s wild how the idea of massive changes being forced through is basically just out in the open. What really gets me is how the Overton window has shifted. A decade ago, the idea of seeing armed troops patrolling the Capitol would have been headline-level alarming, a full-blown national crisis. Now? People just scroll past it like it’s another day on the timeline, and suddenly the idea of a military-style coup doesn’t sound so far-fetched. And I can’t stop thinking about the Jade Helm 15 mess back in 2015. Conservatives absolutely lost their minds over a routine military training exercise in Texas, convinced Obama was about to stage a secret federal takeover with just 1,200 soldiers. GOP hardliners, especially the Montana crowd, even drove all the way down to “observe” for themselves, acting like they’d catch some deep-state plot in action. Now, with actual talk from their own side about using force to take over the government, those same people are dead silent. Maybe that’s because half of them ended up working for ICE anyway. The whiplash is unreal - conservatives flip out over made-up threats, but when there’s genuinely scary stuff going down in plain sight, liberals barely make a sound. I guess nobody stages a melodrama quite like America does to itself.