The first ((And may it be the last.)) US government to come to power in a coup d’etat has now completed just over 87.5% of its “constitutional” tenure!
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The first ((And may it be the last.)) US government to come to power in a coup d’etat has now completed just over 87.5% of its “constitutional” tenure!
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Typical comparativist, forgetting about the presidential elections of 1824, 1876, and (arguably) 1960 (with 1800 being narrowly averted). 🙂
I would not consider any of those coups, though I suppose a case could be made for 1876.
1800 was an interesting one, which could have killed off the young republic just as it was getting started.
(Thanks, Chris, for planting (and cheerfully, no less). We’d not seen you in the virtual orchard in a while!)