Recommended Reading: Coups Make a Comeback and the Destruction of Myths

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Jared Yates Sexton, Diana Butler Bass, Jill Filipovic, Erin Reed, and Damon Linker.

Dec 18, 2022

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes that the “GOP found out on Jan. 6 what generations of authoritarians already knew: coups are hard to pull off. Of 471 coup attempts staged around the world from 1950 to 2000, half were defeated due to operational failure…

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