Barton Gellman’s January 2022 cover story in the Atlantic, “Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun.”11 By hollowing out local election machinery, changing state laws, and making sure that all good Republicans in Congress continue to hew to his big lie, Trump is preparing the ground for what comes next. Fascism. Authoritarianism. Autocracy. What did you think this was about? Just one election? What is the point of killing truth and swapping in your own version of reality unless you want something enormous?
