Right-wing Coup.

Editor,

If the U.S. dollar were not the world's reserve currency, let the silly banana republic chew itself to bits. But the stability of the entire global economy rests on the full faith and credit of the USA.

There is also the detail of the American economy, allowed just enough room by right-wing radicals to run for 3 months now until it will face the threat of yet another government shutdown.

Stephen Kinzer explained to Terry Gross on NPR, in an interview about his new book, "The Brothers," about Alan and John Foster Dulles, that a government is easy to topple in an open society, impossible in a dictatorship.

Right-wing actors have been funding extremist organizations and candidates; coopting media; and undermining journalism, labor, and education in the USA for the last 30 years. Now it seems they feel ready to make their move, and according to their spokesmen Cruz and Boehner, they still foresee victory despite what they perceive as a short-term setback.

Re: "Shutdown Over, Government Slowly Gets Back to Normal" (10/18/2016)