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Jan 7, 2021 30 min

Precedented: An American Coup

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The governor orders the National Guard to string barbed wire around the capitol building and take up defensive positions with machine guns. The Ku Klux Klan, after a campaign of terror against the governor’s supporters, calls for his ouster. The governor promises to pardon anyone who shoots a klansman. The KKK taunts the governor in the press, and headlines tell citizens to prepare for war. No, this is not some The Plot Against America-style alternative history on Netflix. It is the scene-setting for an actual coup d’etat in the American heartland in the 1920s...

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A governor declares war on the Klan. The Klan ousts the governor. Political violence is baked into American history.

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