Trump Lost, But the Coup Won

We at Gaslit Nation like to think big picture, so like a pair of melting clocks in a desert wasteland we shall force your memory to persist! This week, we look back at the last two years and come to a terrible realization: Trump lost, but the coup won.

Among the points of evidence for this claim: 1) The seditionists and insurrectionists who plotted the coup now control the House of Representatives 2) Trump remains free and running for POTUS 3) Radical right-wing SCOTUS made possible by Trump is tossing out fundamental rights and overruling the public will 4) The US is the first country to not prosecute its own coup plotters, thanks to Merrick Garland's DOJ 5) Other coup abettor officials, like Christopher Wray and Louis DeJoy, remain in office despite their betrayal 6) We still don't know key details about the 1/6 attacks – like who that lady planting bombs was -- and neither the DOJ nor the Jan 6 committee members are in any hurry to provide them 7) The GOP launched an attack on civil rights, called it a "culture war", and liberal officials surrendered in advance.

And there's more where that came from! We ask and answer key questions, like "What the actual ****?" and "What can be done?" Tune in and find out!

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Show Notes

Join the virtual February 25 7:30pm screening of Mr. Jones followed by a live audience Q&A with Andrea to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia's total war invasion of Ukraine: https://www.mobilize.us/mediademocracyproject/event/548495/