'Sit down and shut up': Ex-Reagan speechwriter torches MAGA GOP for bogus 'coup' claims

After President Joe Biden announced, on Sunday, July 21, that he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president, it didn't take long for countless Democrats to rally around her.

Harris now has more than enough delegates for the nomination, and according to Fortune, her fundraising haul had brought in at least $100 million by Tuesday morning. The vice president is now the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, with everyone from Biden to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rallying around her presidential campaign.

Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), radio host Erick Erickson and other far-right Republicans have been claiming that replacing Biden with Harris constitutes a "coup."

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But veteran conservative columnist and former Nancy Reagan speechwriter Mona Charen, in a blistering article published by The Bulwark on July 23, finds that claim highly audacious coming from supporters of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

"This is rich," the Never Trump conservative argues. "Here is indeed a candidate in this race who attempted to stage a coup, and we know who that is. Trump submitted his false electoral votes, pressured his vice president, and sent his goons to Capitol Hill because he would not accept the verdict of the voters."

On X, formerly Twitter, Erickson posted, "Y'all can argue over the word coup, but Biden stepping aside is the American equivalent of all those people accidentally falling out of windows in Russia."

Charen writes, "The party that openly admires Vladimir Putin — see Carlson, Tucker — has no business making snarky comments about people falling out of windows. So please sit down and shut up with your coup talk."

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The former Reagan White House speechwriter adds, "The response of the GOP to a real attempted coup? After some initial condemnations, nearly the entire party fell into line denying that January 6th had been anything to get excited about and endorsing the coup-plotter for re-election. There were no calls for him to drop out of the race."

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Mona Charen's full article for The Bulwark is available at this link.