Michael Flynn called for a coup to remove the US Government - and rethink the Vietnamese diaspora role

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1399499780712243201

When former Trump security advisor Michael Flynn attended a QAnon parade, where he made an infamous speech calling for a coup d'etat to occur - with the echoes from the Republicans, we have to be startled to hear this. Trump's megalomania about the rigged election, never found any evidence to support such a theory, appears to be far from over. Trump's followers insist that Trump is still the legal President, pointing out how the coup in Myanmar could serve as an inspiration for many Trumpers.

This disgusting phenomenon went viral and Flynn tried to backtrack from his earlier words, but it didn't impress 2/3 Americans as well as the rest of the democratic world. Given how Flynn was pardoned by Trump and returned to become Trump's servant, having been sacked by Trump before, it showed how Trumpism actually developed. This also captured my belief about the Vietnamese Americans, and its large diaspora's imagination: a similar coup, a distorted view on the world, and in a way demonstrating the medieval agenda in the modern age.

Why do I mention the Vietnamese diaspora, notably Vietnamese Americans? From what I've observed on the internet and from the people in real life, including some who visited Vietnam as tourists, the majority of them are ardent Trumpers. This feeling is strongly rooted in the nostalgia of a historical tragedy: the Vietnam War. After the French force was expelled in 1954, Vietnam was divided into two, but when the Vietnamese King Bảo Đại sought to implement the referendum plan of unity with the communist Hồ Chí Minh, he was toppled by a Catholic nationalist Ngô Đình Diệm. Vietnamese diaspora, in particular, has a negative view of the King, seeing him as the traitor who sold out Vietnam to the communists, and Ngô Đình Diệm thwarted the plan to create a new democratic Vietnam. Of course, we all know Ngô Đình Diệm later made South Vietnam a carbon copy of the Confederate States of America.

Since this kind of coup happened in 1955, it was no secret that the Vietnamese Americans also radically see a similar coup should be orchestrated in order to remove what they perceived to be a "communist threat". The painting of Joe Biden and the Democrats as communists, and the name of Joe Biden being Sinicized into "Jie Baidun" as a troll effort, is part of the plan. The Vietnamese Americans have allied with QAnon, White/Nazi racist groups, Confederate supporters and Republican chauvinists in poisoning its own tribes into taking accounts of how Trump is saving America, to Biden being a potential asset of the Chinese government. Now they even cheer the coup in Myanmar - despite its commitment to the fight for democracy.

Well, Vietnamese support for the Republicans in the States isn't new, since the GOP is seen as "the protector of liberty", according to the Vietnamese diaspora. Being refugees from a communist entity, they are vehemently believers of the Republican paranoia. But Vietnamese Americans are not alone - there are also a lot of Vietnamese living in Australia, Canada and in the European Union that are staunch Trumpers. This even interconnected on their relations with other Asians, since Vietnamese Americans are pro-Trump, they are disenfranchised from the remaining Asians, notably the Vietnamese blamed the widespread Asian hate on the Democrats instead of the Republican perpetrators.

The dangerous thing is, in this case, unlike English or Spanish-speaking media, Vietnamese media overseas is not diverse. Cubans and Venezuelans have similar anti-communist grudges like Vietnamese, but they're not the only Spanish speakers in the U.S.; the Mexicans, Colombians, Peruvians, Chileans and Salvadorans also speak Spanish and they tend to be neutral if not saying critical of Trumpism - thus Venezuelans and Cubans didn't wage their country flags at the Capitol riots. Vietnamese media is absent of neutral or fact-checking, alienates most Vietnamese from reality and contributed to their very Hitler-style ideology.

Michael Flynn's call for a coup really recalls the dark memoir of how Vietnamese Americans caught international headline for waging the fallen South Vietnam flag in a failed coup attempt earlier. Vietnamese should have stood for democracy, fighting against Trumpism and dictatorship if they want to prove their flight from communist terror has its meaning. But my observation in the aftermath of the failed Capitol insurrection gave a grim reversal - more approval for Trump witnessed among the Vietnamese diaspora, spreading in every major Vietnamese-language channels. So this is likely that, they are possibly going to repeat the mistake they did back on January 6th, 2021, once Trump rallied for another riots.