Dem Convention: Maureen Dowd gets hate for calling Biden to Kamala shift a coup

Columnist Maureen Dowd was slammed on social media for her opinion piece for NYT in which she called the Biden to Kamala Harris power shift a ‘coup’. Titled “The Dems are Delighted. But a Coup is Still a Coup”, Maureen wrote that as the Dems are all set for their convention in Chicago, there is a “wave of euphoria, exuberance, exultation” but everyone is made at one another.”Top Democrats are bristling with resentments even as they are about to try to put on a united front at the United Center in the Windy City.”
“It wasn’t exactly “Julius Caesar” in Rehoboth Beach. But it was a tectonic shift and, of course, there were going to be serious reverberations. Even though it was the right thing to do, because Joe Biden was not going to be able to campaign, much less serve as president for another four years, in a fully vital way, it was a jaw-dropping putsch,” she wrote.

“Biden went from looking “forward to getting back on the campaign trail” to gone in one weekend, with the handprints of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on the president’s back. And when Kamala Harris deftly cemented her position as the nominee, the party erupted in a dizzying sense of possibility,” Maureen wrote.
The columnist wrote that the party leaders “whitewashed” the coup by “ornately extolling Biden”.
“Those who pushed out Biden should be proud. They saved him and their party from a likely crushing defeat, letting Trump snake back in and soil democracy. That would keep Biden off Rushmore,” she wrote.
Social media users pointed out that Biden handing over to Kamala is not a coup and the columnist was trying to create a wedge among the Dems.