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Pete Hegseth thinks DEI is America's greatest enemy. Trump thinks Putin is his friend. If anyone described what is happening without naming the party, it would be described as a coup.

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Americans voted their preferences. The “coup” would be by unelected “we know better” spooks using DEI as a feel-good cover to continue business as usual in meddling in foreign affairs that are none of our business.

Dictators are often voted into power, and maintain sham elections afterwards.

January 6th shows what Trump thinks of free elections.

You don't want to respond to the claim that the previous administration mostly felt that it knew better than the median voter or the claim that the previous admin was more eager to start and to continue wars than the current admin is?

Both parties are co-opted by the world oligarchy. That’s true.

> the previous administration mostly felt that it knew better than the median voter

Does the current administration pushing unpopular policies also suggest they think they known better than the median voter?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-pol...

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