He's In His Coup Era 🏰

The Lincoln Project

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Trump is flirting with invoking the Insurrection Act, and when he says he “can do something,” he usually means he's GOING to do it. This week, Stephen Miller encouraged the fantasy of Trump’s so-called “plenary authority” to deploy the National Guard in Chicago and Portland. At the same time, Kristi Noem floated an ICE expansion to “restore order.” Rick Wilson breaks down how Trump’s martial law threats, Miller’s authoritarian fetish, and MAGA’s open calls for arrests are all part of the same anti-democracy fever dream that's becoming more and more of a reality.
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0:00.0	Your task will not be an easy one.
0:02.5	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hearted.
0:06.2	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
0:09.9	There is the United States of America.
0:14.4	Good night and good luck.
0:16.9	Hey, folks.
0:18.1	And the elephant in the room this week is temptation.
0:21.7	Specifically, authoritarian temptation.
0:28.5	Now look, temptation is a part of human nature.
0:33.9	We want what we cannot have. We covet. We desire. We crave things that we cannot have. We covet.
0:38.5	We desire.
0:40.5	We crave things that we cannot have.
0:45.0	Believe me, I want to eat fried chicken five meals a week, but I can't do that.
0:54.3	That temptation right now is manifesting itself in a way that the evil counselors around Donald Trump Stephen Miller
0:56.7	Under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, the president has plenary authority.
1:03.5	Stephen?
1:06.8	Stephen?
1:09.5	Hey, Stephen, can you hear me?
1:15.2	I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they're law-abiding Americans who love this country.
1:21.1	And you message to the NFL with this decision?
1:23.3	It seems like they were trying to send a message to the Trump administration.
1:26.1	Well, they suck and we'll win and God will bless us and we'll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won't be able to sleep at night.
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