[logifail]

A number of citizens not liking their elected representatives has form going back many many decades, but there's more than a whiff of "51 former intelligence officials" nonsense about the whole NoKings story.

Former CIA intelligence operatives helping to organise anti-government protests feels particularly weird.

[collias]

Can you expound on this? First I'm hearing of it, and I can't find anything about former CIA helping to organize.

[pphysch]

Some flavor of coup is not out of the question given our "democracy" is being run and represented (diplomatically) by never-elected cronies like Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The people's Congress and even the State Department are potemkins. In a real sense, a coup already happened.

[freedomben]

The never-elected thing has been an issue for a while (though with Trump it is definitely more so than in the past), going back at least through Woodrow Wilson and surely earlier. I vividly remember when President Clinton gave work to Hillary for example, and the comments about the "two-for-one" deal where you vote for Bill and get Hillary as a bonus.