If there wasn't massive pushback on the whole coup thing, it's because most of us who read it understood where it was coming from.  Most of us who read it have serious concerns with the motives and intent of this president and his minions.  This president and many of his advisors, Cabinet Secretaries, and others, have shown total disregard for the law, are systematically working to deconstruct the government, are actively engaged in grift and corruption, actively working to suppress the vote, may be happily willing to allow the Russians to interfere in the voting process, are  actively working to turn back the progress we've made on civil and human rights - among other things.  The sum total of this is a serious undermining of the democracy, and with no signs that the Republicans in Congress have any intention of checking this behavior and agenda, where and how do you see it ending?

Oh, we have mid-terms coming up, with a chance to change the dynamic and balance of power in the Congress - but when faced with a president and a party that has shown they can and will do whatever they want, how does this help things?  When faced with a president and a party that doesn't think election tampering is necessarily a bad thing, if it keeps them in power, what is the answer to that?

Can we really get to November, 2020 without a total collapse of the institutional integrity of this nation?  Do you not understand why people are worried about this, and not just willing to dismiss everything as being no big deal?

For what it's worth, no one particularly gives a rat's a$$ that the president, as a private citizen, sees marital infidelity as a quaint-but-outdated tradition he is under no obligation to observe, marriage vows notwithstanding.  That isn't the point.  The point, linea, is we have a president whose risky personal behavior, that allegedly included threats of physical harm, made him susceptible to blackmail.  Being a sexual predator is blackmail material.  

The point is that the payoffs may have violated campaign finance laws.  Yeah, that really is a thing, and it's not a small thing.  It may actually be just the tip of the iceberg where violations may be concerned.

Here's the thing, linea: there are a lot of people here at TL who have been on this planet a lot longer than you have, who have seen a lot more than you have, who have worked in politics and elections, who have been on the front lines of activism, and it's at once laughable and offensive for you to march yourself in here posing as some kind of expert and deem us  as "bratty, petulant children" who are "completely devoid of any ethical understanding of democracy."  

That would be the guy who sued GAWKER into the grave and got millions for Melania for a couple of stories that said she was not a model but a high end escort.