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The two putsches

Berry Craig
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Newly-elected Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, which Daily Kos aptly descibed as a "racist, QAnon-promoting Republican" called Jan. 6, 2021, a "1776" moment in Washington.

A Nov. 8, 1923, moment in Munich is more like it.  

Like Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch 97 years ago, the Trump Putch failed. But 10 years later, Hitler was dictator of Germany and World War II and the Holocaust were on the way,

iaA “1776 moment”: Several of the president’s closest allies in Congress used bellicose language to urge their supporters to attend the Jan. 6 rally that turned into a deadly riot.