Op-Ed: The Trump insurrection was America’s Beer Hall Putsch
4 years ago

Op-Ed: The Trump insurrection was America’s Beer Hall Putsch

LA Times  

Very soon after the nation watched in horror as a mob ransacked the U.S. Capitol, journalists and politicians began speaking of a coup. In November 1923, Adolf Hitler led a violent coup against the democratic system of Germany’s Weimar Republic. Hitler learned his lesson: A sophisticated modern state could not be overturned by a violent coup led by outsiders, against the police and the army. Imagine the events of the past weeks and months if someone like Hawley had been the secretary of state in Georgia, or someone like retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn held a significant military command. We will need to respond aggressively if our Beer Hall Putsch is not to be followed by more of the kinds of violence and terror we have seen in the past.

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