It took less than a year for inflation to skyrocket in Turkey after a similar central bank takeover by a similarly economically challenged despot.
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Erdogan survived this because of the greatest TACO of all time and the fact that he had already purged the military and consolidated an authoritarian regime. Trump has not consolidated much at all yet.
aug 26, 2025, 1:19 am • 25 0 • view
Yeah they have a history of coups and an actual deep state that would step in.. and they even tried after he had consolidated a lot! Lived there in 2010 for a bit and yeah a lot of the western oriented secular ppl I knew did not see that going full on like it has, feels familiar
aug 26, 2025, 1:30 am • 6 0 • view
The day of the military coup has passed
aug 26, 2025, 1:31 am • 6 0 • view
The hat fetish is a nice homage to the old ways, though.
aug 26, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
eh, this is too far. they will still always be the guys with the guns
aug 26, 2025, 1:38 am • 0 0 • view
I'd eagerly read a recent quantitative analysis of military coup activity over time. But nearly every book & article I read about democratic backsliding begins from the premise that military takeovers are not the vector of threat to democracy these days
aug 26, 2025, 1:41 am • 3 0 • view
I mean...the current Pentagon brass are mostly all pretty new to their jobs...
aug 26, 2025, 1:33 am • 3 0 • view
There’s what 2 members of the JCoS left?
aug 26, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
It's not the top brass who he needs obeying orders to shoot protesters in the streets.
aug 26, 2025, 1:34 am • 10 0 • view
I'm not sure there's any degree of autocratic consolidation that guarantees that
aug 26, 2025, 1:38 am • 3 0 • view
And he's gonna damn well need it if he causes massive inflation by successfully breaking the independence of the Fed and printing a fuckton of money. Maduro only held on because the army *was* willing to commit atrocities against Venezuelan civilians for him.
aug 26, 2025, 1:39 am • 6 0 • view
Twenty years of Bolivarian revolution materially remaking the country will do that
aug 26, 2025, 1:44 am • 4 0 • view
And Trump, conversely, has relatively little time indeed before he manages to finally finagle a nasty recession, at the rate things are progressing.
aug 26, 2025, 1:46 am • 6 0 • view
He however has had a decade of shaping American Politics to his will even after the coup and counter coup (laudatory) after Jan 6.
aug 26, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
If he made any efforts to purge the US military in his first term, they conclusively failed on Jan 6. Now he's starting from close to scratch on that, and even at a rapid clip he's running out of time much faster than he's getting the military's loyalty secured.
aug 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 6 0 • view
Not saying he has, just the reminder that for the average 18 yr old grunt, he’s been the leader of conservatism since they were 8.
aug 26, 2025, 1:52 am • 2 0 • view