Phil 8.2.2026

The Next Big Lie: The Contours of a Federal Coup Attempt Taking Shape | Vanity Fair

  • Lawmakers, election experts, legal scholars, columnists, and journalists have been shouting from the rafters that Team Trump has been busy laying track. Former Democratic senators Richard Gephardt and Tim Wirth, who have set up the civic group Keep Our Republic, have gone so far as to call these activities nothing less than a “rolling coup,” one that has been slow, strategic, and incremental. Jonathan Alter, a veteran political analyst, has used the same phrase on his Substack. Michael Tomasky, in a new essay in The New Republic, asserted, “It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’Etat.”

Tasks

  • Laundry – done
  • Fix shoe – done (well, hopefully)
  • Read paper – done
  • Check route – done
  • Coffee! Done
  • FCC – progress?
  • 6:00 dinner – nice!