Counter Coup?

Maybe, But Revolution is Better..

Throughout the mediaspehere right now are literally hundreds of pieces and opinions and sillies that are claiming that what Donald Trump is doing right now by reigning in the bureaucracy amounts to a coup.

This is wrong; not just a misguided idea or an incorrect opinion, but simply wrong.

The reform effort underway is not a coup or insurrection or usurpation or…well, maybe the last one if one sees the events of the past two months as a usurpation of the power of the unelected permanent nomenklatura which it actually is.

Donald Trump was elected – Donald Trump is the president and therefore in charge of the executive branch of government which every agency and department by definition reports to.

As Barack Obama said, elections have consequences.

Congress controls the purse strings and the Senate says yay or nay to the top personnel (it’s clearly been very “yay” so far,) but control of the day to day inner workings of said agencies devolve (upvolve?) to the office of the President.

The three branches are equal – if you had a problem with the new imperial presidency you should have mentioned it in 1934.

This is not a constitutional crisis, this is not a coup. Making changes and staging a coup are not the same thing – that’s why the words are different.

Those screaming coup are only doing so because their long held long safe positions of power and influence are being challenged, mocked, and, in some cases so far and many more to come, being eliminated.

In other words, being usurped is the proper word and, considering the once-inviolate hold by the deepist blob of the power structure over the past 60 years, one could even go so far as to call it a revolution.

A paperwork revolution, a spending revolution, an accountability revolution but a revolution none the less – the pitchforks of the peasants have simply been replaced by the algorithms of the techies.

But…

A thought experiment.

Take the rantings of MSNBC as a given truth that the world is truly witnessing a coup of some form right now.

In other words, say it is really a coup – that must then lead to the question of what kind of coup it is?

It is not a “run-of-the-mill coup d’etat, in which it is axiomatic that the people staging the coup seize the radio station, usually even before they track down and meat hook the unfortunate Great Leader of the People and Terror of the Nation’s Enemies and President For Life and replace him with some other Grand High Dirtbag.”

It is not a “Seven Days in May” type of coup – in which the entrenched and/or military powers that decided the president must go and move on from there as a coup is an extremely tricky proposition, as Burt Lancaster’s character in the 1964 film “Seven Days in May,” discovered much to his chagrin. The film (and the book) note the level of detailed planning necessary, the prior co-option of various levers of power that needs to occur, the cruciality for speed of implementation, and – just as importantly – the requirement of a post-coup strategy.”

So what kind of coup could it be?

It could be a counter coup.

Look back at the last few years, the last few decades. Political power has been inexorably gathered in one place – DC – and in one place in DC – the bureaucracy. The electeds, unless they agree with the growing monolith state – are mocked, shunted aside, stifled (both left and right by the way, though the progressives are left alone to play in the “toy department” of shiny objects and cultural absurdity.)

This is not limited to the United States, but is a global socialist socialite statist effort to impose unelected “betters” upon society in order to benefit themselves.

The “coup du publique” of recent times could be called the target of the counter coup:

“…if instead of overthrowing a government, you did this to ensure a government’s survival and expansion – the public be damned. Then you would not have a coup d’etat but a coup du publique.

And that is what is happening in real time around the world right now. But this coup is not replacing the government – it is replacing the people.

It is replacing the right to speak with the right to be quiet. It is replacing the right to strive with the right to be taken care of. It is replacing the rights of the individual with the rights of the collective.

While the targeting makes them inherently different, the coup du publique still requires that the elements of a successful coup d’état be in place.”

And now that is being replaced by a vote of the people, by elected officials – love them (well, no one does) or hate them, they are at least theoretically accountable to the public, a possibility that has literally not existed for a very long time.

Not all coups are revolutions – again, replacing one Grand High Dirtbag with another is not revolutionary; it’s merely shifting the graft from one garbage can to another.

And not all revolutions are coups – see the American War for Independence which did not seek to overthrow an entire government system by simple separate from one and build its own.

And that is a far better, far more accurate, far more honest descriptor for what is happening now in DC. The “evil” Elon Musk right now has Trump’s attention and appreciation, but until the attempted assassination in Butler, Musk was not an involved Team Trump guy and what is happening now – the firings, the executive actions, the changes in international policy – were planned well before Musk came on board.

For the irredeemable left, Musk is just a simple convenient target because; unlike the forces the have staged the actual coup du publique over the past years – he is and has a face. In other words, an easy target, an easy shorthand for protests rather than the nearly undefinable – definitely indescribable in a word or two - blobby blob of bureaucrats.

Again, there is no actual coup occurring, no matter what the aggrieved credentialed but uneducated class are saying right now. But if you Stretch Armstrong their version of the definition, the only coup that is happening is a counter coup, a counter coup to put the people back in charge – at least at some level – of their government.

And that’s called a revolution, even though it is being fought only in the hallways and cubicles.

And the last thing that people who say they are revolutionaries, - they type of people who promise they will go off and join some third-world revolutionary justice effort once they make sure they have made enough money from their advertising agency to put the kids through college but they never do so they just write checks and pat themselves on the back for being part of the vanguard – really want…

An actual revolution.