Americans watched the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey, as some exotic foreign news story, though violent but hardly any unusual political development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil. That should be paused to consider that the prospect of same instability would not be unfathomable in this country if Donald Trump won the presidency.

Kirchick went on to argue that Trump was a nascent authoritarian, whose illegal military orders, such as torturing terrorists, would be required to ignore, and then resist by force.

Kirchick could not fathom Hillary Clinton doing anything illegal with the military. despite her mis-handling with classified national security information, and her evident pride in the Libya war, which Congress never approved.

Such dystopian situations were unimaginable under a President like Hillary Clinton, who, whatever her faults, would never contemplate ordering a bombing run or, heaven forbid, a nuclear strike on a country just because its leader slighted her small hands at a summit.

Kirchick concluded that other than voters stop Trump from becoming president, a violent coup would be the only solution, “Trump is not only patently unfit to be president, but a danger to America and the world. Voters must stop him before the military has to.”

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By Prakriti Neogi