President Donald J. Trump. (Photo: Whitehouse.gov)
Poll: Majority of Democrats Would Cheer a Military Coup Against Trump; Nearly One-Third Support Assassination
That logic is familiar from Marxist-Leninist practice: opponents are not voters to defeat, but barriers to liquidate
By Megan Barth, September 22, 2026 10:29 am
A new survey of Democratic voters finds large majorities open to extra-constitutional and even lethal methods of removing President Donald Trump from office before the end of his term, results that reveal the Democratic rhetoric about “saving democracy”as cover for a base now willing to scrap elections, the Constitution, and even the president’s life to get its way.
The poll of 683 Democratic voters, conducted Sept. 3 and Sept. 8-10 by Liberal Currents in partnership with the Center for Strategic Politics, asked respondents how they would feel if they woke up to various headlines about Trump leaving office.
We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%. pic.twitter.com/C3qb2H0R8j
— Center for Strategic Politics (@StratPolitics) September 21, 2026
Fifty-nine percent said they would feel positive if “a group of U.S. military leaders have removed President Donald Trump from power and assumed control of the United States” to “safeguard the Constitution.” Fifty-five percent would feel positive if Trump “died overnight in his sleep.” Thirty-two percent would feel positive if he “was assassinated while speaking at a rally.”
That deranged culture already has a slogan. “8647”—restaurant slang for “get rid of” paired with Trump’s status as the 47th president—has spread across protest signs, merchandise, and social media. Defenders call it a demand to impeach him. The Secret Service has treated it as coded threat language, investigating more than 1,300 uses, and former FBI Director James Comey was indicted in 2026 after posting seashells arranged to spell the number.
Constitutional routes were also measured in the poll. Eighty-seven percent would feel positive about impeachment and conviction by Congress; 84 percent would feel the same about removal under the 25th Amendment.
The assassination scenario was the only one that produced a net-negative reaction, yet nearly a third of the sample still registered it as positive.
Kamala Harris led the 2028 Democratic primary field in the same survey, followed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. Majorities also favored packing the Supreme Court, ending the Senate filibuster, and criminal prosecutions of Trump administration officials. Fifty-seven percent supported prosecuting officials from both the Trump and Biden administrations over U.S. support for Israel in Gaza.
The findings arrive after a series of assassination attempts on Trump, including the July 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, a September 2024 botched plan in Florida, and an April 2026 attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner involving a California man armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives.
California Globe reporting at the time noted that several California Democrats, including candidates in the 22nd Congressional District, offered no public condemnation even as earlier rhetoric from national Democrats had spoken of “maximum warfare” against Trump and removing him “by any means necessary.”
The new poll numbers, especially the 59% who would welcome a military seizure of power framed as constitutional rescue, invert the language Democrats applied to January 6, 2021. A military coup is not an impeachment. It is not an election. It is the extra-constitutional removal of a duly elected president by armed force. That a clear majority of the surveyed Democratic electorate would greet such an event as good news, and the one-third who support assassination, is the story the numbers actually tell.
That logic is familiar from Marxist-Leninist practice: opponents are not voters to defeat, but barriers to liquidate. The Bolsheviks made it policy. They did not treat rivals as fellow citizens to beat at the ballot box. They treated them as obstacles to remove so the “correct” future could be imposed.
In the name of self-defense, Democrats have stopped keeping the DSA at arm’s length. To beat Republicans and Trump, party leaders and nominees now treat its candidates, money, and organizers as assets. A socialist faction that talks about power, police, and “the system” in Marxist terms is being written into the Democratic platform because winning matters more than walling off revolutionary politics.
The Liberal Currents/Center for Strategic Politics survey does not describe a fringe. It measures how much of the Democratic base now treats coups, court-packing, and even assassination as acceptable tools of saving their power, not the Republic.
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US 2024 voters did not vote to make friends with Democrats. They voted to clean up the past 16 years of the Democrat swamp. You are next, California voters.
Drain the Sacramento swamp so we can all breathe again too. Make California golden again. Everyone wins.
Democrats are a scary bunch,
Democrats are a bunch of Commies and Marxists. Deranged Comies and Marxists.
I wonder if Newsom declaring a state of emergency over a rainstorm event that might be months away and signing legislation that only allows the California National Guard to be used here in California are related? I’m sure that these are an unrelated coincident. I must be a tinfoil person.
Hal – this winter is going to be similar to that of 82/83, which was epic rainfall and coastal flooding, damaged piers, mudslides, traffic accidents and the populace was a lot more intelligent over 40 years ago…
Plan accordingly….
Newsom is a complete corrupt dumbass, but this is the only move he’s made that seems intelligent…
Summary of Southern California’s 1982–83 rainy season from ChatGPT :
The 1982–83 season was an unusually destructive El Niño winter. In Southern California, the problem was not one isolated storm but a succession of storms from late November through early March. Saturated hillsides, already-eroded beaches, high astronomical tides, strong winds, and unusually large waves compounded one another. Statewide, 46 counties were declared disaster areas; California’s estimated economic losses were about **$1.209 billion in 1983 dollars**, including **6,661 homes and 1,330 businesses damaged or destroyed**. The figure includes more than Southern California and covers economic losses—not simply the cost of rebuilding.
### Principal storm events
**November 30–December 1, 1982 — opening storm, roughly 2 days.**
This storm brought widespread rain and winds of about **60 mph along much of the California coast**. It was more severe in Northern California than in the south, but it marked the beginning of the season’s repeated storm pattern and helped establish saturated ground and vulnerable coastal conditions. Specific Southern California repair costs for this storm are not separately reported in the sources reviewed.
**December 14–16, 1982 — major three-day storm.**
A second storm affected California for approximately **three days**, with winds reaching about **80 mph along the Oregon coast** and large surf along the California coast. In Southern California, the cumulative effect was significant because coastal infrastructure and beaches had little time to recover before later storms. Separate repair figures for Southern California from this event are not identified in the available reports.
**Late January 1983 — coastal storm sequence, including January 27–28 impacts.**
The January storms produced some of the season’s most dramatic Malibu-area damage. At Los Flores Beach, waves struck homes directly; at least one house was swept into the ocean. In Malibu Colony, waves broke windows, flooded homes, and carried trees, sand, and debris into living areas. More than **20-foot waves** flooded portions of Pacific Coast Highway, damaged the Zuma beach parking area, and contributed to closures and mudslides. Malibu Canyon was shut for days after a landslide trapped motorists. The storms also damaged or destroyed piers, including the **Paradise Cove Pier**, where nearly **500 feet** was pulled apart over the course of the storm sequence.
**January 1983 coastal storms — approximately three months of exceptionally severe wave conditions.**
Although individual storm durations varied, the January–March period was characterized by repeated major storms rather than one continuous rain. Wave conditions were substantially more severe than during the preceding three years: the mean significant wave height for eight major 1983 storms was about **5.5 meters**, compared with **4.3 meters** for major storms during January–March 1980–82.
**February 27–March 2, 1983 — principal late-season storm, about 4 days.**
This was the most damaging documented storm window in the season. The National Research Council identified it as a particularly destructive event and conducted a reconnaissance along roughly **600 miles of California coast** from March 9–13. Coastal erosion and structural damage from the winter were estimated at **several hundred million dollars** overall. The storm produced large waves, coastal flooding, landslides, beach erosion, and damage to public infrastructure.
In Orange County, the associated storm conditions produced **four inches of rain in six hours**, including **one-half inch in eight minutes**. More than **700 Huntington Beach homes** and homes in Costa Mesa flooded after runoff and waves opened roughly a dozen breaches in flood-control levees; some houses reportedly had up to **4½ feet of water** inside. Seven-foot waves damaged more than half of the Seal Beach Pier.
**March 1, 1983 — Los Angeles tornado during the storm, hours rather than days.**
While the broader rainstorm lasted several days, the tornado itself was a short-duration event. An F2 tornado, with estimated winds of **113–157 mph**, moved through South-Central Los Angeles. It killed **nine people**, injured more than **30**, and damaged or destroyed more than **150 buildings**. It also toppled utility poles and partially tore the roof from the Los Angeles Convention Center. A separate local account describes approximately **100 homes damaged and 50 destroyed** along the tornado’s path. A standalone repair estimate for the tornado damage is not identified in the sources reviewed.
### Repair and damage-cost estimates
The best-documented repair estimate is for coastal protection infrastructure:
– **U.S. Army Corps of Engineers breakwaters:** approximately **$17.8 million** to repair damaged breakwaters, in **1983 dollars**. The Corps characterized the storm waves as probably the largest since 1941 and possibly the largest since the nineteenth century.
– **All California coastal erosion and structural damage:** estimated at **several hundred million dollars**, with no single definitive repair total because the figure covered beaches, cliffs, homes, roads, piers, seawalls, and other infrastructure.
– **California statewide economic losses:** approximately **$1.209 billion**, including direct and indirect losses and damage to homes and businesses.
– **Southern California total:** a single authoritative total for Southern California repairs alone is not established in the sources reviewed. The available figures are instead component estimates—such as the $17.8 million breakwater repair estimate—and broader statewide or coastwide loss totals.
### Overall assessment
Southern California’s 1982–83 rainy season lasted, in practical terms, from the first major storm on **November 30, 1982, through the final major storm window ending March 2, 1983**. The most damaging impacts came from the combination of repeated rainfall and runoff with coastal waves and high tides. The season flooded homes, breached levees, triggered landslides, closed Pacific Coast Highway, destroyed or damaged piers, eroded beaches and cliffs, swept some coastal homes into the ocean, and culminated in the March 1 Los Angeles tornado. Its documented repair bill ran into at least **tens of millions of dollars for specific coastal structures**, while total coastal and statewide economic losses reached the **hundreds of millions to more than $1 billion in 1983 dollars**.
I was a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo during that winter. If I remember correctly the piers in both Pismo Beach and Avila Beach both were severely damaged and had to be rebuilt. If you know Pismo Beach, there is a 20-foot sea wall that I saw waves crashing over from further up in the parking lot. Me and a buddy walked out on the harbor pier at the Port of San Luis and that pier was rocking and rolling. My comment was intended to be about the sudden interest in a State of Emergency, how the national guard is deployed within the State and the democrats seemingly okay with a military coup. Democrats have been telegraphing their intentions now for several years.
Save California from the Democrat hive-mind and their claims of “OUR Democracy(TM)”
VOTE:
Governor: Steve Hilton
Lt. Governor: Gloria Romero
Attorney General: Michael Gates
Secretary of State: Don Wagner
Treasurer: Jennifer Hawks
Controller: Herb Morgan
Insurance Commissioner: You are Doomed
Superintendent of Public Instruction: Sonja Shaw
Incompetence and corruption in government comes to the surface during widespread emergencies. Just look at the Palisades fire. Imagine what it will be like during epic storm events.
“Incompetence and corruption in government comes to the surface during widespread emergencies. Just look at the Palisades fire. Imagine what it will be like during epic storm events.”
Nawwww, no way, the California State Government has got this handled, what? With all the DEI HIRES, The whole DEI that the Government has done through out the individual departments of this state. Heck no. Im not worried. They got this! (Sarcasm and rolling my eyes) yea. We are screwed.