A 20-Year-Old GOP Strategy Drew the Road Map for Trump’s Attempted Coup

Why George W. Bush succeeded where Trump failed

Michael A. Cohen
GEN
Published in
10 min readDec 11, 2020

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Supporters for George W. Bush stand outside Al Gore’s residence in November 2000. Photo: Shawn Thew/AFP via Getty Images

Over the past five weeks, Donald Trump has led a series of bumbling, incompetent, and spectacularly unsuccessful efforts to undo the results of an election he has clearly and decisively lost.

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Michael A. Cohen
GEN
Writer for

Political columnist for the Boston Globe. He is the co-author of “Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters To Americans.”