Why was the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol considered an ‘auto-coup d’état’?

The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research’s Coup d’État Project initially categorized the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as an “attempted dissident coup.” But that classification has evolved to include the additional classification “attempted auto-coup d’état,” said Scott Althaus, the center’s director and a professor of both political science and communication at Illinois. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Read Entire Article

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