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THE QUIET COUP. TRUMP FIGHT'S BACK FOR THE CITIZENS AGAINST AN ENTRENCHED ENEMY

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WHEN THE PRESIDENT HAS TO SEND IN FEDERAL AGENTS TO STOP CRIME IN YOUR CITY......


The overthrow of the rule of law, as experien ced in the USA during the Biden Administration, should have been a wakeup call to most of the citizenry that dark forces had broken through our Constitutional defenses and were running roughshod across the map of the United States.


Since the re-instating of President Trump, the rule of law has been incrimentally re-imposed if and where it can be. The majority of American is returning to normal or what passes for it in a country where one party has relied on official misconduct, terrorism and disinformation to remain in power in certain areas and in order to project power (which is waning) in others.


The citizens should by now realize that the Trump administration is battling back against a coup that was perpetrated on us in 2020 and had the help of, not just the "elected" elites and technocrats, but to some extent,the military and intelligence forces.


The report below details many of the things that one should be observing and noting for their own safety and as further proof that this "Quiet War" or "soft coup" is spinning up.





Executive Summary

This report frames a pattern many Americans feel but struggle to articulate: the quiet replacement of rule-of-law governance in key cities by a political machine that normalizes illegal presence, manufactures dependency, and seeks to entrench a permanent electoral bloc. When national leadership declines to name this as a “coup,” yet deploys federal capabilities to restore order, the operation starts to look and feel like domestic counter-insurgency (COIN).

You’ll find:

  • Diagnostic indicators that a city has shifted from ordinary politics to a sovereignty contest over people and space.

  • How federal “security” actions map to COIN doctrine—from protecting key terrain to bypassing compromised local prosecutors.

  • Concrete U.S. case studies (federal deployments in Portland; Operation Legend; municipal ID and non-citizen voting pushes; prosecutorial nullification trends; outbound migration).

  • Foreign analogues (Brazil’s federal intervention in Rio; Spain’s Article 155 in Catalonia; France’s mass-riot mobilizations; the UK’s Operation Banner; Colombia’s “Democratic Security”).

  • A field guide for ordinary citizens to recognize the signs.

I. What We Mean by “Quiet Coup”

A “quiet coup” is the non-kinetic capture of urban governance: control over policing, prosecutors, budgets, registries (IDs), and rolls (voting). It proceeds through policy and administrative levers, not tanks and juntas. Once established, it works to reshape the electorate (via municipal IDs, local voting by non-citizens, permissive residency rules) while selectively suspending law through non-enforcement and charging downgrades—producing predictable exoduses of middle-income families and a backfill of dependents and recent arrivals.

The federal executive may answer with “security operations” that carefully avoid civil-war language, yet act as classic COIN: protecting key nodes, reasserting sovereignty over contested terrain, and using federal charges when local legal systems are unwilling or unable to act. U.S. Army/Marine Corps doctrine (FM 3-24/MCWP 3-33.5) provides a neutral vocabulary: secure the population, control key infrastructure, displace insurgent parallel governance, and restore legitimate civil authority. U.S. Marine Corps

II. The Strategy That Enables the Coup

1) Administrative Re-registration of the Population

  • Municipal ID programs lower the friction of city life for people lacking federal/state IDs and are often explicitly open to undocumented residents (e.g., NYC’s IDNYC; Chicago’s CityKey). These cards integrate access to services, transit, libraries, bank/civic partnerships, and discounts—building a parallel civic identity layer. Chi City Clerk+4NYC Government+4NYC Government+4

  • Downstream effects include eligibility touchpoints (transit, clinics, financial services) and, at times, sensitive record conflicts—as seen when Chicago paused online CityKey applications after an ICE subpoena for records. WTTW News

2) Normalizing Non-citizen Local Voting

  • Washington, DC currently allows non-citizens (including unauthorized) to vote in local elections; a federal court left the law intact in 2024, and efforts to repeal it in Congress are ongoing. Congress.gov+2Democracy Docket+2

  • San Francisco permits non-citizen parents to vote in school board elections; the policy was upheld by a California appellate court in 2023. San Francisco City Attorney+2Justia Law+2

  • New York City’s sweeping non-citizen municipal voting law was struck down by New York’s highest court in March 2025—showing the legal boundary conditions at the state level even as cities push. Reuters+2AP News+2

  • Big picture: Federal and state elections remain citizen-only, but a spreading matrix of local exceptions builds political facts on the ground. Migration Policy Institute

3) Selective Suspension of Enforcement

  • “Progressive prosecution” strategies widely downgrade or divert charges. In Manhattan, over half of screened felonies were downgraded to misdemeanors in 2022, per office data cited by independent fact-checking. PolitiFact

  • Policy memos—from NYC (Bragg’s “Day One”) to Philadelphia (Krasner 2018)—formalize charging and plea practices that can lower incapacitation and deterrence in the short-term while promising longer-term equity gains. Manhattan District Attorney's Office+1

4) Demographic and Fiscal Knock-on Effects

  • IRS and Census data document net domestic out-migration from major coastal metros during 2020–22, with partial rebounds later—pressure that drains taxable income. New York lost ~298,000 residents to other states (12 months ending July 1, 2022) and posted a net outflow of 107,798 tax returns in 2021–22. Empire Center for Public Policy+1

  • The Census shows notable outflow from Bay Area metros in 2021; local reporting tracks San Francisco’s population losses and partial stabilization thereafter. Census.gov+2San Francisco Chronicle+2

  • The Census’ latest city/town tables (Vintage 2024/2025 releases) are the baseline for where declines have slowed or reversed. Census.gov

III. When Security Operations Become COIN by Another Name

Signs that federal action has shifted from routine law enforcement to COIN-style stabilization:

  1. Protection of Key Terrain and NodesExpect fortification and continuous guarding of courthouses, federal buildings, transit hubs, and comms centers—as in Portland 2020, when DHS surged 755 officers and hardened the Hatfield Courthouse. opb+1

  2. Bypassing Compromised Local ActorsFederal prosecutors bring charges independent of local DAs—assault on federal officers (18 U.S.C. §111), civil disorder charges (18 U.S.C. §231), depredation of federal property, etc. Portland produced dozens of such cases in 2020 and again in 2025. Appellate decisions (e.g., USA v. Pugh) confirm §231’s reach. Department of Justice+2Department of Justice+2

  3. Narrative Management—Avoiding “Coup” LanguageOfficial statements frame deployments as “protecting communities” or “violent-crime initiatives” (e.g., Operation Legend expanded across multiple cities), rather than as sovereignty contests—even as the operational rhythms match stabilization campaigns. Department of Justice+2American Oversight+2

  4. Targeting Insurgent Finance & Influence LinesFARA and related authorities are used to audit/expose foreign-funded influence and NGO pipelines, with DOJ highlighting recent criminal cases and a broader enforcement posture. Department of Justice+1

  5. Federalization or Direct Federal PresenceHistoric precedent: Eisenhower’s 1957 deployment of the 101st Airborne to Little Rock under Executive Order 10730 to enforce federal law—an explicit assertion of national supremacy over a defiant local power center. National Archives+1

IV. Case Studies (U.S.)

A) Portland (2020–2025): Federal Protection of Key Terrain

  • 2020 saw federal officers in camouflage and unmarked vehicles detaining suspects amid nightly attacks on the courthouse; courts limited some federal tactics (e.g., temporary injunctions re: journalists), and later civil suits were settled. Yet federal charging continued. Department of Justice+3TIME+3Axios+3

  • In 2025, new rounds of assault-on-federal-officer prosecutions again illustrate the bypass of local non-prosecution with direct federal action. Department of Justice+1

Why it matters: This is textbook COIN logic applied domestically—hold the courthouse (symbolic and legal terrain), raise the cost of insurgent attacks via federal charges, and avoid conceding the narrative.

B) Operation Legend (2020): Multi-City Federal Crime Surge

  • Began in Kansas City, expanded to Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, Albuquerque, St. Louis, Memphis, Indianapolis, with DOJ stressing violent-crime reduction and critics calling it political. Operationally, it mirrored population-centric security: joint task forces, targeted warrants, and federal gun/drug cases. Department of Justice+2American Oversight+2

C) Municipal ID + Local Voting—The Governance Layer

  • IDNYC and CityKey explicitly accept residents regardless of immigration status, integrating transit/library/benefits—soft power that cements residency. Chicago’s 2025 ICE-records subpoena fight underscores the data-sovereignty friction such systems create. WTTW News+3NYC Government+3Chi City Clerk+3

  • DC non-citizen voting (survived federal court challenge) and SF school-board non-citizen voting (upheld) show incremental normalization; NYC’s broader attempt failing shows state constitutional guardrails that remain decisive. Democracy Docket+2San Francisco City Attorney+2

D) Prosecutorial Nullification as Parallel Governance

E) Population Flight and Fiscal Hollowing

  • IRS/Census series record large net domestic outflows from high-profile metros in 2020–22 (New York, San Francisco), with partial stabilization later. Whatever the blend of causes (crime, cost, COVID policy), the political effect is a tax base and middle-class erosion—a strategic objective in a quiet coup. San Francisco Chronicle+3Empire Center for Public Policy+3NY Tax Department+3

V. Foreign Analogues: How Central Power Reasserts Itself

  1. Brazil (2018): Federal Intervention in Rio de JaneiroPresident Michel Temer invoked a federal security intervention, placing a general over state public security. The move explicitly centralized command to restore order in gang-contested urban terrain—an overt version of what quiet U.S. stabilizations attempt without the rhetoric. The Guardian+2Opinio Juris+2

  2. Spain (2017): Article 155—Direct Rule in CataloniaAfter a unilateral independence move, Madrid invoked Article 155 to suspend home rule and reassert national sovereignty. The measure was legalistic and administrative rather than kinetic—a constitutional stabilization. Wikipedia+1

  3. France (2023): Nationwide Riot ResponseFollowing the Nahel Merzouk shooting, France mobilized tens of thousands of police, imposed local curfews, and fortified state nodes—population-centric security to re-establish deterrence. TIME+2Le Monde.fr+2

  4. United Kingdom (1969–2007): Operation BannerThe British Army supported police across decades-long urban insurgency management—guarding key points, checkpoints, raids, and bomb disposal—COIN layered with civil authority. Wikipedia+1

  5. Colombia (2002–2010): “Democratic Security”The state surged forces to reclaim territory, deny insurgents resources, protect pipelines, and restore state presence—a classic, publicly named COIN where sovereignty over terrain and people was the metric. Brian Loveman's Homepage+2Crisis Group+2

VI. Field Guide: Indicators an Ordinary Citizen Can See

A. Territorial Control Signals

  • Night-time rule: Who owns the streets after dark—gangs/activists, or visible state security?

  • Fortified nodes: Courthouses and transit hubs with permanent federal security presence. (Portland’s courthouse is the U.S. example.) opb+1

  • Checkpoints & access control around critical government sites—temporary at first, then normalized.

B. Legal System Work-Arounds

  • Federal charges for crimes committed in “local” unrest (assault on federal officers, civil disorder) when local cases vanish or are persistently downgraded. Department of Justice+1

  • Task-force branding (“Legend,” “Safe Neighborhoods”) accompanying sustained joint operations. Department of Justice

C. Population Engineering

  • Rapid growth of municipal ID issuance (mobile enrollment clinics in migrant hotels/shelters; integration with transit and healthcare access). Axios+1

  • Local non-citizen voting, especially where state constitutions allow charter city latitude (SF) versus those that do not (NYC). San Francisco City Attorney+1

D. Narrative Markers

  • Official avoidance of “insurrection” language; preference for “equitable safety,” “stabilization,” “community security.” Compare with FM 3-24 guidance emphasizing population security and legitimacy. U.S. Marine Corps

E. Money Lines

  • Audits/investigations into foreign-funded info operations or NGO pipelines (FARA enforcement bulletins and cases). Department of Justice+1

  • City budget line-items tied to ID programs and services that expand without matching enforcement capacity (e.g., CityKey funding pressure). Axios

VII. Interpreting the Executive’s Posture

Why keep it quiet?

  • Legitimacy management: Naming a coup risks international fallout and domestic escalation.

  • Legal foundations: The executive can lawfully deploy federal resources to protect federal property, enforce federal law, or, in extreme cases, federalize the Guard (Little Rock precedent). National Archives

  • COIN logic: Fix the ground reality first—secure people and nodes, then transition to normal politics, rather than inflaming conflict with maximalist rhetoric. U.S. Marine Corps

VIII. Recommendations for Citizens, Officials, and Civic Groups

  1. Track the Objective Measures

    • Prosecution mix: Felony-to-misdemeanor downgrade rates; dismissals; time-to-disposition. (Manhattan/Philadelphia memos show what to look for.) Manhattan District Attorney's Office+1

    • ID uptake & use: Where and how municipal IDs are leveraged for service access and voter eligibility. NYC Government+1

    • Migration & tax base: Use IRS SOI migration and Census city tables to quantify the exodus or rebound in your area. IRS+1

  2. Insist on Clarity in Local Law

    • Push for state-level constitutional clarity on voter eligibility (NYC’s loss at the Court of Appeals reveals the leverage point). AP News

  3. Support Parallel, Lawful Federal Lines of Effort

    • When local prosecution fails, federal task forces and charges can restore deterrence without declaring a domestic war. (Portland and Operation Legend are the playbook.) Department of Justice+1

  4. Follow the Funding

    • Monitor FARA bulletins and public filings for foreign-funded information ops and NGO networks that interface with local politics. Department of Justice

IX. What “Winning” Looks Like in a Quiet Counter-Insurgency

  1. Restored Night-Time Dominance by legitimate security forces over key urban corridors.

  2. Rebalanced Prosecutorial Behavior, visible in charging and incarceration data for violent/serial offenders.

  3. Rollback or Guard-railing of Local Voting for Non-Citizens where state constitutions constrain it (NY standard), or tight transparency where allowed (SF). Reuters+1

  4. Civic Identity Reforms that separate access to services from pathways to the franchise, and protect sensitive ID data from exploitation. WTTW News

  5. Economic Return of the Middle Class, evidenced in IRS/Census migration flows reversing outflows. IRS+1

X. Conclusion

A quiet coup advances by capturing institutions, reshaping registries, and suspending enforcement—not by storming palaces. A quiet counter-insurgency answers by securing people and nodes, bypassing corrupted channels, and re-legitimizing the rule of law—often without saying the words out loud.

For citizens, the telltales are visible: who controls the streets; which courts are actually used; how IDs and rolls are managed; how prosecutors charge; where the tax base is moving. For officials who still care about the Union, the doctrine already exists. It simply requires the will to apply it—calmly, lawfully, and to decisive effect. U.S. Marine Corps

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