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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Dems attack Hegseth to advance a coup against Trump

 by Andrea Widburg

On April 15, thirteen radical House Democrats introduced six articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, accusing him of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The charges are spurious, alleging that he violated the War Powers Act (which didn’t apply), that he committed war crimes because Iran claimed that girls were in a building on an IRGC base that the U.S. struck, and managing the military in ways they disliked.

Those articles may have been the acts of radicals, but the fact is that the Democrats have relentlessly sought to undermine Pete Hegseth at every turn. Some of it is purely policy-driven: They want mentally ill people in the military, low recruitment, a focus on social justice, not winning wars, and the triumph of overt enemies.

However, DataRepublican has a more shocking contention. She says the continued efforts to destroy Pete Hegseth are the prelude to an actual coup. I particularly noted this because Democrats are engaged in a stealth revolution against our Constitution and the Founders’ vision. DataRepublican, however, a more kinetic coup, which requires disposing of Hegseth.

I’ve pasted DataRepublican’s full thread at the end of this post. This is a summary, with some added information:

Here’s the premise:

Here’s the key point that she develops:

They went after him because every color revolution manual ever written says the same thing: you cannot topple a government unless the security forces defect. And a loyal Secretary of Defense is the one person who makes sure they don't.

Whoa! But here’s the proof:

It begins with a study from Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan examining 323 regime-change campaigns. It says the obvious: If a leader’s security forces abandon him, he’s 46 times more vulnerable.

Armed with that information, Maria Stephan became the Chief Organizer of the Horizons Project. That organization’s mission is to “Strengthen connections and collective action among US pro-democracy movements and networks.” It is steeped in the language of leftism.

Last summer, Stephan created a training video explaining how to destroy existing institutions. Here’s the key quotation:

The third attribute of successful campaigns, they feature defections and loyalty shifts within key institutional pillars. ... Security forces refused to obey orders to repress protesters.

The same presentation explains that one of the ways to destroy the government is to destroy the loyalty that the military and police forces have to the administration:

Servants are responsible for executing policies and basically getting anything done. Security forces wield coercive power. These pillars and their social, political, and economic power ultimately prop up regimes. And when they crack and power within them shifts, the entire edifice can crumble.

Additionally, Gene Sharp’s message still resonates with this crew.

If you don’t know who Gene Sharp is (I didn’t), here’s the skinny: Sharp, who was a conscientious objector during the Korean War and died at 90 in 2018, created a handbook for non-violent resistance to government, which included 198 suggested methods. Because he allegedly worked with our government to help bring down other governments, the left attacked him—right up until Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn vigorously defended him.

Hardy Merriman, who worked for Sharp and helped write the CANVAS regime-change handbook, created a domestic version that highlights that military members swear an oath to the Constitution, not the president. Keep that point in mind.

Two months after Trump’s November 2024 victory, the august Brookings Institution published its Democracy Playbook 2025. It discusses “dealing with security forces” and looks at color revolution case studies. In a footnote, the playbook explicitly points to an AP article entitled “Pete Hegseth had been flagged by fellow service member as possible ‘Insider Threat.’”

On November 11, 2025, the National Lawyers Guild, a hard-left institution, put together a guidebook for service members wanting to know the finer points of “refusing illegal orders.” One day later, the Guild called the U.S. action in Venezuela a war crime and called for officers to disobey orders.

Then, on November 18, 2025, Mark Kelly and five others published their infamous video telling service members to disobey Trump’s orders. These were not random politicians.

According to DataRepublican, those “five others” were all recruited through the New Politics Leadership Academy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works to train military veterans, social workers, Peace Corps volunteers, and others to get into politics. The organization says it’s nonpartisan, but its “graduates” are overwhelmingly Democrat.

Just as the playbook predicted, the administration responded harshly to the video. Its efforts to punish them failed, with a grand jury declining to indict anyone. It was a cause célèbres.

Ironically, Democrats have ignored Daniel Driscoll, the Secretary of the Army, who has been more rigorous about disrupting the Biden status quo. DataRepublican posits that this is because Driscoll is chummy with many Democrats, or, at least, his wife is. (Leftist wives are often a problem; e.g., the wives of Paul Krugman, Joe Kent, Jake Tapper, Colin Kaepernick, etc.)

Driscoll is also embedded in professional networks, associations that make him vulnerable to defecting from the vision that Trump and Hegseth have for the military (a fighting machine, not a social justice experiment). Hegseth has no loyalty to these professional institutions. He’s loyal only to the military.

There are a few more details DataRepublican provides about organizers out to get Hegseth, but that’s the gist of it. The conclusion is that the key leftist institutions that Hegseth named in DataRepublican’s first tweet knew he was a threat, not to them specifically, but to their plans, and they instantly swung into action to put them into effect.

If getting Republicans on the same page is like herding cats (see, e.g., the failed SAVE America Act, which ~70% of all Americans support), Democrats are like the Borg: They have a single sensibility, and they can and will do whatever it takes to achieve their goal.

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The tweets


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/dems_attack_hegseth_to_advance_a_coup_against_trump.html

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