The Next Stage in Donald Trump’s March Toward a Military Coup
Donald J. Trump—grifter, game-show host, serial bankrupt, and self-anointed Caesar—is now openly auditioning for the part of America’s first homegrown military dictator. If you think that’s “too extreme,” then congratulations—you’re precisely the kind of useful idiot strongmen rely on. He thrives on extremity. It’s his breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He wears it like a cheap polyester suit—creases and all.
History has seen this farce before. Berlin, 1933: the Reichstag in flames. Hitler, with the oily cunning of a lifelong fraud, blames the Communists. Overnight, civil liberties are suspended, opposition leaders are dragged away, and democracy is mugged in a dark alley. It wasn’t genius—it was brute force dressed up as destiny. And it worked not because Germans were uniquely gullible, but because they, like you, convinced themselves that “it couldn’t happen here.”
Trump has learned the lesson well. His enemies list reads like a roll call of anyone who’s beaten him at the ballot box: Barack Obama (“traitor”), Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden. This isn’t just playground taunting—it’s a steady acid drip, corroding the idea that political opponents are legitimate at all. In his cosmology, they’re not rivals—they’re criminals, “enemies of the people,” vermin. And here’s the kicker: once you convince a mob that vermin walk among them, extermination becomes not a crime but a civic duty.
Now for his latest stunt: Washington, D.C.—turned into his personal stage set. He’s seized control of its policing by deploying the National Guard, not in response to any genuine threat, but in brazen defiance of reality. His excuse? A “crime wave” so absurd that even the ghost of Joseph Goebbels might have advised him to make it slightly less ridiculous.
Here’s what he doesn’t want you to know:
- Crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low.
- Homicides are down 12%.
- Sexual assaults have dropped 48%.
- Robberies have fallen 24%.
Despite rhetoric painting Washington, D.C. as a city in crisis, the facts tell a very different story. Violent crime has fallen to its lowest level in three decades, with homicides down 32%, robberies down nearly 39%, and sexual assaults down about 25%. This sharp drop dismantles the narrative of a runaway “crime wave” and exposes it for what it is: a manufactured pretext for power grabs and political theater【MPD Crime Data at a Glance】【The Guardian】.
If this is a crisis, then a drizzle is a biblical flood. But of course, the truth isn’t the point—truth is the enemy. You don’t stage a coup because reality demands it; you stage one because you’ve replaced reality with something far more useful: fear.
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And while we’re at it, let’s revisit January 6th, 2021. Remember when Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol in a grotesque attempt to violate the Constitution and stop the certification of an election? Did he call in the National Guard then? No—because on that day, chaos and violence were the plan. The five lives lost, including law enforcement officers, were simply collateral in his first failed coup attempt. That day, restraint served him. Today, overreaction serves him even better.
Coups don’t begin with tanks on the lawn. They begin with “temporary measures,” “security provisions,” and “emergency powers” that mysteriously never expire. They begin with populations—yes, I mean you—who tell themselves that giving one man extraordinary powers is fine because he’ll only use them on “the bad people.” Newsflash: you’re on his list, too—you just don’t know it yet.
And here’s the part where my patience evaporates: millions of you are cheering him on. You think his boot will stay firmly on someone else’s neck. You believe this bargain has ever worked in human history. Let me spoil the ending—it doesn’t. Mussolini’s fans ended up staring at him swinging upside-down in a Milanese piazza. Hitler’s disciples spent their twilight years dodging Allied bombing raids and rationing potatoes. Franco’s devotees… well, they just grew old, bitter, and forgotten, which is arguably worse.
Trump’s move in D.C. is not random bluster. His poll numbers are sagging like a motel mattress. Even some of his red-capped faithful are starting to mutter doubts. The chance of Republicans losing the House and Senate in 2026 is real. And if you believe—honestly believe—that he’ll permit an election that threatens his grip on power, then you deserve the government you get. This is a dress rehearsal for declaring a “national emergency” to cancel the midterms, and like all bad actors, he’s testing his lines before the final performance.
The Reichstag fire was the overture to German fascism. Trump’s phony “crime crisis” is meant to be ours. The uniforms are shabbier, the speeches are dumber, and the hair is a crime scene unto itself—but the machinery is the same.
And to those of you rolling your eyes, muttering “it can’t happen here” as you sink back into whatever screen keeps you comfortably numb—remember this: every country that slid into tyranny was full of people exactly like you
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Further Reading
- Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum — A Pulitzer Prize‑winning historian exposes how democratic elites worldwide drift toward nationalism and autocracy. https://civilheresy.com/twilight of democracy lure of authoritarianism
- Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, Anne Applebaum — A revealing study of modern autocrats, united not by ideology but by self-enrichment and power networks. https://civilheresy.com/autocracy dictators run the world
- The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Naomi Wolf — A vivid and urgent wake‑up call, outlining the creeping steps by which democracy can collapse from within. https://civilheresy.com/end of america letter warning
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