There’s bad news and good news for members of the resistance: in an interview with Salon published Monday, Yale history professor Timothy Snyder says it’s “pretty much inevitable” that President Donald Trump will attempt to take full control of the government by staging or exploiting a national crisis and declaring a state of emergency.
However, Snyder also tells Chauncey DeVega that his gut feeling is that “Trump and his administration will try and that it won’t work. Not so much because we are so great but because we have a little bit of time to prepare.”
Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy https://t.co/D2SYuMvJKU
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) May 2, 2017
Despite 1,500 retweets or so, it doesn’t look like many people read the part of the interview where Snyder says Trump’s attempt to end American democracy will fail; in fact, many think the professor either is underselling the danger Trump poses or doesn’t realize the country doesn’t have close to a year to prepare.
First pieces of the plan are already in play, distrust of media, change laws to make singular control easier, it's happening already…
— What A. Boutism (@What_A_Boutism) May 2, 2017
I am shocked that anyone thinks this isn't already happening. Comparisons to Germany 1930s are astounding. 1940s next?
— Spartan Jay Jay (@SpartanJayJay) May 2, 2017
I honestly would not put it past this administration to start a "Reichstag fire". In other words, what Snyder says isn't just hyperbole.
— *you're (@RKJ65) May 2, 2017
He won't fail. Congress won't stop him
— In YoUr DrEaMs & fEd Up ?? (@dragginflyy) May 2, 2017
We have to stop him #TheResistance
— Ginger Parks (@Trueheartparks1) May 2, 2017
This puts a cold fear in the pit of my stomach
— AJ Mirabelle – *Hug Slut* (@aj_mirabelle) May 2, 2017
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This is the scariest thing I have read in a while, and that's saying quite a bit.
— ?RBV? (@singfourlife) May 2, 2017
Welp, have been terrified but this cemented the fact that no, I won't be sleeping tonight- again.
— T_in_TX (@t_steinwald) May 2, 2017
The resistance will overthrow trump before that happens. The question is whether it will be peaceful or violent
— Aaron Wylam (@awylam) May 2, 2017
It’s sounding pretty violent, actually.
Whose side is the military on right now? That's the important question.
— PlasticSpoon (@PlasticSpoon) May 2, 2017
There are more of us than them! Military would be with us
— SalmonSuzy (@susan_erikson) May 2, 2017
Americans will not suffer tyrants. he starts a coup, he will learn the Second Amendment isn't just something he can use on his opponents.
— Patchouli Woollahra nee Camilia Fidelis (@PatchouliW) May 2, 2017
If it's a coup it's gonna be him going down!
— Billie ?? ? & 1/2 ? ?? (@Trumpsapuppet1) May 2, 2017
@charles_gaba @Salon Hard to get my head around, but I'm seeing things every day I could never imagine. #RESIST, people!
— RosemaryS (@wascallywose) May 2, 2017
@Spider_Hunter @Salon What the HELL can I do today? How can I start the 25th today? Lawyers are the only ones to save us.
— Emerging Citizen (@EmergingCitizen) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/Big_Ragooo/status/859229088183181312
That article scared the sh%t out of me. We need to do something.
— Cheryl (@cheryl_brooks) May 2, 2017
Quick, somebody loop George Takei into this Twitter thread before it’s too late!
This.
Please RT@GeorgeTakei @ProgressOutlook @paladine #Resist— wut (@amrandall3514) May 2, 2017
It might be too late for even the guy who played Sulu on “Star Trek” a half century ago to help.
@ActualEPAFacts @chaunceydevega
WAKE UP folks, the coup has already happened.— AngelaDeJulius MDMPH (@angdejulius) May 2, 2017
The coup has already happened.
— Frederick Frank (@GaskinsJeffrey) May 2, 2017
Could the coup have already happened last year?
— optimus subprime (@dlforgottenman) May 2, 2017
Overthrow? His constituents are handing him a coup on a silver platter.
— Shannon (@shannon7568) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/LadyLe114/status/859215741299691520
RUSSIAN PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Q I've been wanting to ask you, Sarah. If Trump colluded w/ Russia to win an undemocratic minority victory, did the coup already happen?
— Area ? Woman (@GregNerese) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/WendyR305/status/859218189770780672
https://twitter.com/DOnofrioRemo/status/859219046398644224
Of course the Republicans will never give up power without resorting to bloodshed — just look at the ferocity with which the GOP just this weekend agreed to keep funding Planned Parenthood and sanctuary cities through the fall in order to avert a government shutdown. Paul Ryan’s a monster, we tell ya.
I believe this was always the plan!! Reading this really makes me upset and infuriated at the same time
— Mary Kirwan (@kirwan5085) May 2, 2017
He's dangerous and crazy. The horrifying part is that he's been working on his plan all along, changing things slowly to catch us off guard
— Carol Murray (@dixiecrl7) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/sebasti05915421/status/859205548910063617
If someone in the Deep State could smuggle the plans out of the White House and into the hands of the resistance, that’d be a big help.
I think this is just a bit hyperbolic.
— (((Porgstein))) ✡ ? (@porgstein) May 2, 2017
Oh brother…there is so much wrong with this "inevitable" conspiracy that it would take many a tweet to catalogue it all.
— Nicholas Marritz ??? (@stringquintet) May 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/KirkDanielNoS/status/859220690813280257
https://twitter.com/joe_kehoskie/status/859203874384732160
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Trump-triggered and unglued Rosie O’Donnell predicts how GOP’s ‘coup d’état’ will end https://t.co/JzNiqmkX6m
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 22, 2017
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