[jacquesm]

There was an excellent article by someone from a place where a failed coup led to a real one a couple of years hence. Democracy is not 'intact', it is now damaged, and whether or not manage to repair it remains to be seen.

The most dangerous thing you can do now is to think this is behind you and from here on in everything is normal. It isn't and it probably won't be for some time. If you manage the next two transfers of power at the end of election cycles without further mishap I'd say that you can say democracy is intact. Until then all bets are off.

Edit: I wished I could locate the article, so far no luck.

edit2: finally found it in my history, this article was from 11 November 2020, and very prescient:

https://indica.medium.com/i-lived-through-a-coup-america-is-...

[belorn]

I would like to see some data on failed coups that does not involve any military.

The latest major failed coup that I can remember would be the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, and the effect it had on the country is well known. The general consensus internationally seems to be that the efforts by their government to stamp out their "terrorists" has been a bit of an overreaction, even if literal tanks was involved. The censorship machine in particular has been quite overreactive.

One can really hope that the US democracy manage a more appropriate reaction that is more proportional to the threat.

[koolba]

The only worse than the the content of that link was the writing style.

[jacquesm]

Thank you for your contribution. Note the error in the one line comment you made.

[koolba]

Ha! Well I'll take unintentional typos over the drivel in that article any day of the week.

[jacquesm]

So far he's made the right call though. Note when it was written, and what has happened since.

[koolba]

Predicting that somebody stupid would do something stupid after the last election does not make one Nostradamus.

He also claims that Trump is refusing to leave and is leveraging the military to facilitate that. That's bunk.

[jacquesm]

It's bunk because the military didn't play ball, not because it wasn't tried.

What's mostly bunk here is that you think that this is behind you and I am not willing to accept that until we have seen one, and preferably two transfers of power without mishap, preferably in both directions.