David Nakamura @DavidNakamura
There have been ~148 autogolpe ("self-coup") attempts since WW2 --110 in autocracies and 38 in democracies. Only five times, has an incumbent leader targeted an election winner, and just once in a democracy — in 1948, leading to the Costa Rican civil war. https://t.co/Tc4oL4Tloo — PolitiTweet.org