There will be no Trump coup

Speculations about what Trump will do if he faces political defeat will end in three weeks

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US Presidential elections 2020 | Donald Trump

Three weeks from now, we will reach an end to speculation about what Donald Trump will do if he faces political defeat, whether he will leave power like a normal president or attempt some wild resistance.

Reality will intrude, substantially if not definitively, into the argument over whether the president is a corrupt incompetent who postures as a strongman on Twitter or a threat to the Republic to whom words like “authoritarian” and even “autocrat” can be reasonably applied. I’ve been on the first side of that argument since early in his presidency, and ...

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First Published: Tue, October 13 2020. 00:03 IST
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