# Does Overturning an Election equate to Overthrowing the Government? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-overturning-an-election-equate-to-overthrowing-the-government/982986 **Category:** Politics & Elections **Created:** [April 20, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-overturning-an-election-equate-to-overthrowing-the-government/982986 "2023-04-20T19:56:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT) #### Post date: [April 20, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-overturning-an-election-equate-to-overthrowing-the-government/982986/10 "2023-04-20T20:12:22Z")
Of course it was a coup. We literally saw the man raise an army and sack the capitol. The men who wrote the Constitution, one hundred years after Cromwell, would not have been confused. And neither were we: the Dope was tracking the (then) upcoming coup just 6 days after the 2020 election: > [@The American Coup: 11.9.2020 -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182): > > thinking Trump fired his Secretary of Defense, replaced Esper with Chris Miller. This is a totally normal thing for an outgoing President to prioritize. Esper then says, in an interview in Military Times, that for the George Floyd protests he (Esper) would not support Trump’s desire to invoke the Insurrection Act against the Floyd protesters: [[Google Photos] ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/9xqbCpACp8jJAxHG6) We know if you’re Donald Trump and you want troops on the streets for a Portland police stat… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-overturning-an-election-equate-to-overthrowing-the-government/982986)._