This new YouGov poll demonstrates something that I’ve been saying for a while. Republicans don’t like, and do not feel very attached to the our crappy old Democracy. It is messy. They lose… a lot. Many of them, (even, no doubt, Republicans you may consider sober, and level-headed), would just as soon see a military takeover of the government.
“Republicans (43%) are more than twice as likely as Democrats (20%) to say that they could conceive of a situation in which they would support a military coup in the United States.”
More to the point, only 32 percent of Republicans state unequivocally that they would not conceive of a situation in which they would support a military coup. One would be tempted to think this is simply a matter of partisanship, but there is no evidence that Democrats have ever entertained the notion of a military coup, no matter who was president, even one as widely loathed as George W. Bush. It’s as “un-American” as it gets.