'Can you imagine the disdain?' Ex-GOP insider says Pete Hegseth setting stage for a 'coup'

What gave it away? Did 25 year long quest to invalidate elections they don't win? The denial they did lose an election? Or was it the false accusations projecting what they are doing onto the opposition? Or was it the literal coup attempt where they tried to take Congress hostage and force it to sign over the republic?

The author must be a sharp one!