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Do you know what coup plotters do? They plot coups.
In the modern context, that looks less like tanks in the streets and more like—see if this part sounds a little bit familiar—the nullification of elections on pretextual grounds ranging from fictitious electoral fraud to vaguely defined national emergencies.
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Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.
