Shocker headline on the website Political Wire: “Many Republicans Would Support Military Coup.” Presumably these are people who watch Seven Days in May and turn it off before the last reel because the end’s so disappointing. The story links to YouGov, which says that “43% of Republicans could imagine supporting a military coup in the United States.”
No details necessary, right? It fits the narrative. Democracy empowers people, the Right hates people, the military kills people, and you get parades. Win-win all around. But where did the percentage come from? An online survey about attitudes toward the military and politicians. Most Americans trust the former and would strap the latter to rockets and fire them into the sun. Nice consensus on that one. Then the poll posed some real stumpers, like “Do you believe that the military has a duty to protect the Constitution against foreign enemies?” Many weren’t sure, perhaps because they had a hard time imagining soldiers bursting into the National Archives as ISIS agents brushed Wite-Out onto the founding documents.
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